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Rich Benjamin

Rich Benjamin is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America and a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan research center

August 2019

  • Shooting at shopping mall, El Paso, Texas, USA - 03 Aug 2019<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock (10353844a) Police cordon off Walmart shopping mall area in El Paso Shooting at shopping mall, El Paso, Texas, USA - 03 Aug 2019 A mass shooting on Saturday killed at least 20 and injured 26 others in the U.S. state of Texas, local officials said at a press conference.

    When is Trump going to take white supremacist terror seriously?

    Rich Benjamin
    After this latest massacre, we are all complicit when we look the other way. And noone is more complicit than the president himself

September 2016

  • Paul Coates speaking at Everyone’s Place African Cultural Center, Baltimore, in the early 1990s.

    The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – subverting white expectations

    Coates, whose Between the World and Me has shot him to literary fame, earlier wrote this powerful memoir of his father and coming of age in Baltimore, says Rich Benjamin

May 2016

  • POUM militia guards.<br>POUM militia guards the Headquarters of the POUM in Barcelona 1936. In the background stands British writer George Orwell. The Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (Spanish: Partido Obrero de Unificaci?n Marxista, POUM; Catalan: Partit Obrer d'Unificaci? Marxista) was a Spanish communist political party formed during the Second Republic and mainly active around the Spanish Civil War. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

    Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild – review

    What makes people volunteer to fight in other countries’ wars? An accomplished storyteller sifts history to find those eager to remake the world, while also remaking themselves

July 2012

  • Mitt Romney

    Mitt Romney's contradictory trumpeting of American exceptionalism

    Rich Benjamin

    Rich Benjamin: His tax dodging presents self-serving vision of globalization exploited by elites at the average American's expense

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