Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Civil Rights

Few political phrases carry as much moral weight in American public life as civil rights. It is a term that evokes the nation’s highest ideals—liberty, equality before the law, and protection from unjust government power. Because of this moral weight, civil rights has become one of the most contested and misused concepts in modern political…

The Racial Comments of New York Times Journalist Sarah Jeong

For well over a century, The New York Times has cultivated an image as America’s “paper of record.” It has been the publication presidents read each morning, the paper cited in courtrooms and classrooms, the reference point for other journalists. This reputation has rested not only on its breadth of coverage but on a perception—sometimes…