Jelani Cobb

The state’s intent seems to be to provide white Floridians, from a young age, with a version of history that they can be comfortable with, regardless of whether it’s true.

The Killing of Tyre Nichols and the Issue of Race

A generation is still dying younger than it should—this time, of “natural causes.”

Following the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation, the former President was arraigned on felony charges stemming from hush-money payments.

The scale of what has been lost is difficult to assess in the moment. But not entirely impossible.

The senseless sloganeering that produced the phrase “too big to fail” during the Great Recession has a contemporary corollary: too big to convict.

Trump recently assured a crowd in Mason City, Iowa, that Haley “doesn’t have what it takes.” He cited her meandering answer to a question about the cause of the Civil War, from an audience member at a New Hampshire town hall, in which she failed to even mention slavery. With typical self-satisfaction, Trump noted, “I’d say ‘slavery’ is sort of the obvious answer, as opposed to about three paragraphs of bullshit.” This particular problem with the past is not a new one for today’s Republicans. Gov…

Fifty years after Shirley Chisholm ran for the Presidency, we find ourselves yet again questioning the durability of outmoded presumptions about race and gender.

After the 2016 election, progressives blamed white women for Hillary Clinton’s loss. This year, Black men have come under special scrutiny.

We will be a fundamentally different country by the end of the next Administration. Indeed, we already are.