Dog whistle of the week: Donald Trump’s calls for his supporters to monitor voting in “certain” (read: black) neighborhoods are sowing dangerous seeds, Jamelle Bouie writes. “Trump’s attack on the election process grows out of years of mainstream Republican behavior and rhetoric that revved an engine of paranoia and fear among conservative voters,” Bouie warns.
Accept yourself: White Republicans who resent conversations about white racism need to realize that implicit bias exists, Will Saletan writes. Rather than deny it altogether, why not think of it as a problem inherent in human nature that needs to be dealt with?
Still gasping: Our criminal justice writer Leon Neyfakh saw Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary about mass incarceration and realized just how accustomed he had gotten to some terrible facts.
The Stones did it: In an excerpt from his new book, Jack Hamilton explains rock and roll’s whiteward turn in the 1960s.
For fun: Talking with a Tiny House Hunters couple who bought a literal burned-down shack for $155,000.
But it was in L.A.!
Rebecca
