Whitewash by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Writing for The New York Times Magazine, Nikole Hannah-Jones uses her acumen as a historian and her insightfulness as a journalist to go deep on U.S. conservatives’ longstanding, hateful crusade against Black citizenry achieving basic equality in the country. This article perfectly demonstrates why Hannah-Jones is so often the target of right-wingers’ sputtering grievance. She is deeply persuasive in her arguments and backs up every point with plainly stated and correctly evaluated historical fact. She is correct and the conservatives are wrong, and the conservatives understand that at their rotten cores. The United States is held back from realizing its true potential by those who adamantly refuse to let it progress to the stated promise of liberty and justice for all.

The U.S. Economy’s Rebound Since COVID Is Kind of Incredible. Why Doesn’t Anyone Seem to Realize This? by Zachary D. Carter

Sometimes I think our political system is irreparably broken. Rather than reporting the basic facts about the U.S. economy’s strength, particularly when measured against basically everywhere else in the world, the news media prefers endless rehashes of suspect polling about negative public perceptions of the economy, typically with no countervailing context. Towards the end of this piece, Zachary D. Carter puts the largely untold story of the Biden years plainly: “the U.S. government spent a ton of money to support workers and their families.” That basic truth doesn’t need to be part of every story, but it should be out there in the public sphere more than it is currently. This article is published by Slate.