Sheila Bapat reminds us that Donald Sterling is just one more pice of sexism that the NBA has given a pass to.
Conor P. Williams documents that the conspiracy theories surrounding common core range from inspired by the Hitler Youth to contributing to the Islamification of America.
Interesting. First affirmative defense of Donald Sterling outside of Stormfront. Verdict from Powerline: not racist but crucified by race-baiters and hussy girlfriend.
You know Donald Sterling as a civil rights hero. Now meeting Donald Sterling, feminist.
Secretary Kerry just released a statement sort taking back his off-the-record remark that without a two state solution Israel faces a future as an apartheid state. That’s unfortunate because he’s actually doing Israel a big favor by saying this. But I like the way he also threads the needle – saying, in essence, these are the facts, two former Israeli Prime Ministers and the current Minister in charge of negotiations with the Palestinians have made the same argument with the same word but it’s better if I don’t use the word even though it’s true.
Statement after the jump …
Dylan Scott on the NAACP’s long, strange relationship with wealthy racist Donald Sterling.
Coming off of the news of a new study saying that the U.S. is closer to an “oligarchy” than a democracy, academic Nick Carnes brings up his own research that might just explain why: We keep electing the rich to public office. Carnes writes, “just 3 percent [of members of Congress] came from the kinds of working-class jobs that the majority of Americans hold.”
Looks like desperate right-wing efforts to make Sterling into the “Democrat Bundy” have taken a bit of a hit.
Turns out he’s a registered Republican.