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This Cinco de Mayo, Arizona’s NBA team, the Phoenix Suns, will denounce their state’s immigration policy on their uniforms. NBA.com reports that the Noche Latina tradition includes uniforms displaying the team name “as spoken by the Latino population. . .  The Miami Heat, for example, is called “El Heat”; the San Antonio Spurs are “Los [...]

In the words of Harper’s Magazine editor Roger Hodge, the magazine’s monthly Index is “a statistical poem.” He presumeably meant that it allows the reader to experience it and come to his or her own conclusions. Today, instead of explaining a position, I offer a ‘statistical poem’ about rape. Each statistic is preceeded by the [...]

If there was a takeaway message from Sarah Palin’s abominable performances on 60 Minutes with Katie Couric, it seems to have been: do not answer her questions. In the clip after the jump, Glenn Beck refuses to explain what he means by ‘white culture,’ if what he’s talking about is spelled that way and not [...]

The formidable mind of my mentor Kristin Bumiller always deserves mention. Luckily, the American Political Science Association agrees with me. Bumiller’s excellent book, In An Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriate the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence, won the APSA’s 2009 Victoria Shuck Award for the best book published in the previous calendar year on women [...]

Recently my girl Ashley pointed me to a post at Jack and Jill Politics. In my browsing there, I came upon yesterday’s post, “The Field Negro Smacks Down Shelby Steele’s Self-Hating BS.” While the post makes important points about the natural alignment of the black power movement and liberal politics’ focus on the government’s commitment [...]

To the left, we see Anna Kournikova and George H. W. Bush giving each other a gesture of mutual “greeting, departure, or respect,” known as “the pound”. Yet when Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama reproduce the same gesture, Fox News calls it a “terrorist fist jab” (see video after the jump). Fox also [...]

Lou Dobbs has done it again. There is no “race problem” in America. . . only racist people like Lou Dobbs, making veiled allusions to Condoleeza Rice as a cotton . . . what? A cotton-picking politician? Wait, what was this about no problems talking about race? Check out the outrageous footage after the jump. [...]