Guest op-ed by Brandon del Pozo who became the chief of police of Burlington, Vt., in 2015, after serving 19 years in the New York Police Department @ NYTimes.com, Nov. 13

Why do we teach them that a person with a knife is always a lethal threat?

By Dana Goldstein @NYTimes.com, Nov. 12

A plan to desegregate schools in a liberal Maryland suburb founded on values of tolerance has met with stiff resistance.Photo caption: Protesters outside the Howard County Board of Education building in Ellicott City, Md., last month.Credit...Andrew Mangum for The New York Times

Leaked emails from White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller from 2015-2016 reveal an obsession with white nationalism, the Confederacy and the denigration of black and Hispanic communities.

By Emma Patton, Paula England, and Andrew Levine @ Contexts.org, "Sociology for the public", November 11, 2019, with graphs for answers to each question

In her 2017 book American Hookup, Lisa Wade says, based on what some students of color told her, that “in some ways, hookup culture is a white thing.” In this blog post, we use data from an online survey from over 20,000 American students at 21 colleges and universities to explore what, if any, differences in sexual behavior or attitudes about sex exist between White, Black, Latinx, South Asian, and East Asian students [....]