THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026

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Republicans are Racists

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  • Fifty Years of Keeping Score, and the Fiftieth Report Says the Dream Moved Further Away

    The National Urban League has published State of Black America every year since 1976. The 50th edition landed last week with a sentence that should have led every newscast in the country: the American Dream "may not be dead for many Black Americans, but it is further away than at any point since the Civil Rights Movement." Black homeownership sits at 44 percent against 73 for white Americans. The median Black household holds fifteen cents…

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  • Ten Months After the Court Blessed the Stops, the Numbers Are In. The Dissent Was a Forecast.

    In September 2025, Justice Sotomayor dissented from the order that let immigration agents resume stops based partly on looking Latino: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job." Ten months later, researchers pulled the government's own arrest data. Detentions of Latinos with no criminal record are up sixfold, and the agents are on bodycam using…

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  • In the Whitest Towns in New Jersey, 9 Percent Say the Schools Are Segregated

    In New Jersey towns where one resident in a hundred is Black, 68 percent of voters say the local schools have "a good mix" of races. A Fairleigh Dickinson survey experiment matched what 1,211 voters say about their own towns against the Census data for those same towns... and then found the single question that makes some of them see the fence.

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