Examining racism beyond prejudice

This is an interesting conversation in the New York Times between George Yancy and Joe Feagin, a Texas A&M sociology professor who has studied racism in this country for four decades. For people who say they’ve evolved past prejudice, good on them. But that’s not nearly enough. Feagin says: Prejudice is much less than half …

The death of Obamacare? I didn’t even know it was sick.

Arguments are ongoing at the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell, the third Obamacare (Affordable Care Act to precise historians) case to reach that august body. Add to that some 56 attempts to repeal the thing by elected officials who oughta know better. And because they don’t, I will helpfully post this. A tinge more …