Marcus Mabry

Marcus Mabry writes that white outrage over abusive policing and swelling support for the Black Lives Matter movement make him hopeful that America is living through a moment of fundamental societal change

It was one of those moments that shows in stark relief the difference between being Black in America and being White in America.

Marcus Mabry writes that the practice of realpolitik does not consider the morality of allowing a smaller country to be swallowed by a larger one, or a democratic one to be crushed by an authoritarian one. But that is the whole point of realpolitik.

The war in Ukraine dominated the year like no other news, proving, as the pandemic has, that our interests are global and our news coverage needs to be, too.

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