people can criticize kyrie irving all they want. all i’ll say is this: after i got the vaccine i found i was completely unable to play basketball at the nba level
For @TheAtlantic, I wrote about the salt-of-the-earth millionaires who make up America's local gentry, and how their economic and political clout shapes American politics and society. https://t.co/sOHTPclh7W
This story took me twenty years to write: the US tried to bring democracy to Afghanistan—-but the war continued so long that Afghan democracy was no longer the issue. American democracy was. @NPR
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Black folks have often had to teach each other the history left out of textbooks; the stories America would prefer to forget about—the ones that make things the way they are.
My Granddaddy would have turned 90 this week. Here's what he taught me: https://t.co/78Yb1lcBMq
New: Washington can no longer feign ignorance: big swaths of Trump's base are a toxic mix of conspiracy and intolerance, a threat to democratic institutions.
Wednesday was inevitable, as the country wrestles w/ a basic question: Whose democracy is it?
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