Jelani Cobb

Being an older parent, just like my dad.

The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not.

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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