Trump and Barr let the biggest drug dealers in America off with a slap on the wrist. Law and Order indeed. - Adam Serwer

The artifacts that persist in my memory are the photographs of lynchings. But it’s not the burned, mutilated bodies that stick with me. It’s the faces of the white men in the crowd. There’s the photo of the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Indiana in 1930, in which a white man can be seen grinning at the camera as he tenderly holds the hand of his wife or girlfriend. (p 100)

the anti-political correctness types are really just trying to enforce their own standards of acceptable discourse and are furious at their inability to do so

Donald Trump, whose uncritical support for Israel and belief that America is fundamentally a nation for white Christians exacerbates a divide between the two largest Jewish populations in the world. (p 205)