Today – July 2, 2014 – we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction, the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination of all kinds based on race, color, religion, or national origin. The law also provides the federal government with theContinueContinue reading “50 Years Later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964”
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George Will: Country Eager to “Feel Good About Itself” by Voting for a Black Man
Sam Stein on HuffPo today writes about George Will’s comments on the Powell endorsement of Obama. There will be “some impact,” Will declared. “And I think this adds to my calculation — this is very hard to measure — but it seems to me if we had the tools to measure we’d find that BarackContinueContinue reading “George Will: Country Eager to “Feel Good About Itself” by Voting for a Black Man”
Bradley vs. Facebook Effect
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman seems to have boiled down the presidential contest to a battle between the Bradley Effect and the Facebook effect. “But this year there is another force at work: young voters, especially those under 30. Most of them are more or less oblivious to race in their political thinking. They have grown upContinueContinue reading “Bradley vs. Facebook Effect”