Anthony Conwright

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May 13, 2025 Mayor Ras Baraka Talks to The Nation Mayor Ras Baraka Talks to “The Nation”On his arrest, the private prison company GEO, and why he believes we’re heading into authoritarianism—but democracy will prevail.

Jan 16, 2025 | thenation.com | Anthony Conwright

Politics / January 16, 2025 How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against Genocide The international laws against genocide were deliberately crafted to prevent the US from being held accountable for its crimes against Black and Indigenous people. Ad Policy An anti–Joe Biden sign from a protest outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 27, 2024.

Jan 16, 2025 | thenation.com | Anthony Conwright

Politics / January 16, 2025 How American Racism Sabotaged the World’s Fight Against Genocide The international laws against genocide were deliberately crafted to prevent the US from being held accountable for its crimes against Black and Indigenous people. Ad Policy An anti–Joe Biden sign from a protest outside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 27, 2024.

Oct 22, 2024 | thenation.com | Anthony Conwright

(Elijah Nouvelage / AFP via Getty Images) Thank you for signing up for The Nation’s weekly newsletter. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. It’s a modern political tradition to closely scrutinize the behavior of Black voters in presidential election cycles. Yet the partisan battle for Black support has intensified during the Trump era.

Aug 13, 2024 | newrepublic.com | Anthony Conwright

“In the modern imagination,” Professor Lewis Gordon wrote in 2023, paraphrasing philosopher Frantz Fanon, “reason takes flight whenever the Black enters the scene.” Indeed, from the moment the Democratic Party coalesced around Vice President Kamala Harris as its nominee, ushering in the prospect of America’s first Black Madam President, reason has taken flight.