Sublime

Ralph Ellisson, dans un ouvrage célèbre, avait qualifié le Noir américain d'« homme invisible ». Mais maintenant qu'il est devenu visible ? Cette nouvelle visibilité soudaine et grandissante qui le cache, en quelque sorte, en tant qu'individu ? Un étrange retour au point de départ. Le Noir américain était réduit à la couleur de sa peau parce qu'il

think Focus was next. This is a pretty conservative gay group from extremely conservative Orange County. The Focus group carried a large sign reading “Homosexuals for Ronald Reagan.” I heard one woman spectator on the sidewalk say, “I can forgive them for being homosexuals, but not for being for Ronald Reagan.”

Bill Moyers recalled Johnson saying that he had delivered the South to Republicans “for your lifetime and mine,” which would turn the whole structure of politics on a fulcrum of color. In their direst visions, after the Goldwater convention followed hard upon the civil rights bill, neither established experts nor shell-shocked Negro Republicans ant

Yet while the Times sits on news of the FBI investigation into the Clinton charity, it finds it much more newsworthy that Trump’s charity paid $20,000 for a portrait of Trump. And the Times jumps on the news when New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman, a Clinton supporter, opens an aptly timed investigation into the Trump Foundation. In

To Israelis left incredulous by these events, I recalled America’s regard for any government—even of Islamic extremists—elected democratically.

For many, the bare arithmetic was enough: more Palestinians than Israelis were dead, and that fact alone proved that Israel was the villain. Ignored was the fact that although “only” 810 Israelis were killed (as of June 2003), Palestinian terrorists had attempted to kill thousands more and had failed only because Israeli authorities had thwarted “a

if being black meant having a race, so did being white.

Ever since Reagan, the Republican Party has been a coalition of business interests and downscale whites, many of them evangelical Christians. By 2010 it was like a figure in a hall of mirrors whose head and body have been severed but continue to move as if they’re still attached. The persistence of the coalition required an immense amount of self-d