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White working class

John Quiggin writes at Crooked Timber on a not new discussion on what constitutes “white working class” or “whiteworkingclass” used in media descriptions. In comments there are several who tackle…

…realities that butts up against the many myths about hate crimes, namely, that only a small percentage of such crimes are committed by real “skinheads” or white supremacists. The average…

There are limits to the analogy between Clinton’s 2008 primary contest with Obama and Sanders’s primary contest now with her. Clinton doesn’t get that. But she needs to figure it out because the differences matter.

…about the middle-aged one-time factory workers who support Sanders now? And the middle-class white collar workers whose kids will borrow, or have borrowed, large amounts in student loans? What about…