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  • Staff Writer, The New Yorker
  • Professor of Journalism, Columbia School of Journalism
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Queens native, Dean @ColumbiaJourn. Staff Writer @NewYorker. Left-hander, check my doc Policing the Police2020: www.youtube.com/watch?v=taNwWilMVLg
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We Need to Talk - Season 1 (2017)

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By Bill Cosby, Jemele Hill, Jelani Cobb 
| JustWatch
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Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Complicated Commemorations

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By Jelani Cobb 
| The New Yorker
Commemorations often tell us as much about the times in which they are being held as they do about the events they are commemorating. The two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, this July 4th, falls at a moment when the nation is being led by a twice-impeached President amid a widely recognized crisis of democracy—last Wednesday, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v.
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What ICE Should Have Learned From the Fugitive Slave Act

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By Jelani Cobb 
| Portside
Trump’s mendacity and conspiratorial reasoning, along with his contempt for journalism, recall the attitudes of Senator Joseph McCarthy—a connection that some early Trump observers attributed to the fact that the Senator’s chief counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings, Roy Cohn, became something of a mentor to Trump in the nineteen-seventies. Trump’s incendiary populism mirrors the tradition of reactionary populists from Senator Thomas Watson to Governor George Wallace.
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