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Musa al-Gharbi

Musa al-Gharbi is a Paul F. Lazarsfeld Fellow in Sociology at Columbia University. Readers can connect to his research and social media via his website: musaalgharbi.com

Kamala Harris (AP/Alex Brandon)

Kamala Harris and the rest of us will regret portraying civil rights as a national security issue

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Supporters cheer as Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Fredericksburg, Va., Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Trump will likely win reelection in 2020

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The Democratic Party is facing a demographic crisis

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Donald Trump (AP/Ted S. Warren)

We may be just this screwed: Donald Trump has an easier path to victory than you think

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Hillary Clinton (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Hillary’s atrocious race record: Her stances over decades have been painful and wrong

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The 1 percent wins again: How entrepreneurship — supposedly the cornerstone of American society — favors the wealthy

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Ammon Bundy (AP/Rick Bowmer)

Ammon Bundy is not a terrorist: The authorities are waiting out the militia — just as they should do with Black Lives Matter protesters

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The pope rebukes the GOP: The real story behind Boehner’s departure and the right’s assault on American values

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Bill O’Reilly’s phony new war: The war on cops is as make-believe as the war on Christmas

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White people aren’t the enemy: Why social justice demands a rainbow coalition of minorities & poor whites

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Wipe the Confederacy out now: Southern haters have a sick new lie designed to hold onto Confederate flags, memorials

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(AP/Chuck Burton)

Dylann Roof’s extremism is not an aberration: There are millions across Western nations who adhere to his white supremacist views

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McKinney is just the beginning: The shocking real numbers on race, the police and overuse of force

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Please listen, white Facebook friends: This is what you need to understand about race and the police

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Pamela Geller is a coward: Right-wing media’s big lie and shocking MLK slander

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There is no social change without coercion: Race, Baltimore, and how violence makes nonviolence possible

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