turns out that when you run the numbers for white men the ratio is even worse, and a cop is 100x+ more likely to be shot by a white man than an unarmed white man is to be shot by a cop. we must stop these rampaging white men! On making useless stats:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/…/how-conservatives-use-made…

It's weird and creepy that schools continue to make kids recite a daily Pledge of Allegiance.

Did you know that:
Some conservatives with very strong opinions about immigration do not actually know how U.S. immigration law works?
To avoid these kinds of embarrassing mistakes, you can consult our handy flowchart, "Navigate Your Way Through The Asylum Process." (Poor Charlie Kirk failed at step 1.)
https://images.currentaffairs.org/2017/06/asylumchart.pdf

The ways in which student debt falls hardest on women and people of color...

2020 will be here sooner than we know, and the Democrats need to be ready to treat Bernie Sanders as their presumptive nominee.

"Amazon’s fight against Seattle’s anti-homelessness initiative strikes me as breathtakingly perverse. The company makes billions in profits, and pays zero federal taxes (far less than Current Affairs pays, I might add!), and yet has the audacity to threaten to leave the city of Seattle over a measly $275-per-employee annual tax on the largest 3% of employers designed to fight the very affordable housing crisis caused by the presence of companies like Amazon. Frankly, I think Seattle’s affordable housing advocates should respond to this behavior by doubling the proposed tax, which was far, far too low."

We hired a trained philologist to patiently explain to the right why "Western Civilization" is an intellectually empty concept.

Trump's executive order on child separation is not what you think...

"In my cynical moments, I suspect that all conservative philosophy is just an attempt to come up with pleasant-sounding rationalizations for not caring about what happens to other people and not lifting a finger to help them."

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"One should not just be entitled to the right 'to vote,' but to vote as easily as possible."

"Jeff Sessions, who is apparently a Christian, had better hope that Christianity turns out to be bunk, because otherwise he is going to burn for eternity. I myself am rooting strongly for Christianity to be real!"

Most Current Affairs opinions are delivered in 5,000 word chunks. But sometimes, you need bite-sized opinions for a quick subway ride or while waiting for a meeting to start. That's why Lyta Gold has micro-opinions.

"Here in New Orleans, the antebellum mansions are still full of white people, and the neighborhoods below sea level are still black. The past is stamped on the present in ways that are only possible to overlook if you have a vested interest in forgetting."

Efforts to make sure one’s kids get the “best” are reproducing harmful inequalities…