As news spreads that Trump has coronavirus, some people are rejoicing (quietly or otherwise). Are they depraved, as Trump supporters would have you believe, or is there something justifiable in their reaction? 

Activists now dismiss “respectability politics” as a way of forcing minorities to conform to white norms. But a lack of respectability in how Americans go about their politics, on the left and the right, is threatening to derail the social justice movement.

As opposition to the activist group mounts, we need a way to distinguish support for black lives matter the sentiment from the movement. 

Everyone knew the NFL would focus on race this season but no one expected the campaign to start the way it did in Kansas City Thursday night. What was the crowd saying? 

Best Picture nominations will no longer be judged by the substance of their content but adherence to superficial identity markers along rigid tribal lines. That is you must adhere to identity politics to have your work deemed worthy of Oscar consideration. Breaklines looks into the implications for creatives and society more broadly.  

There are real instances of police abuse that unfairly impact people of color, but we as a nation have taken it to a point where we shamelessly feed altercations into this narrative. Here BreakLines looks at key reasons for this and the cost to society.

Weeks after George Floyd’s death, a black man in Atlanta, unprovoked, punched a police officer, stole his Taser, ran and tried to tase another officer, challenging the notion that the killing was racially motivated. But we’ll filter it through a narrative of race, thank you very much. This growing aversion to critical thinking nurtures extremism and is not in our collective interest.

From Trump supporters to the "woke" left, tribalism is rife in America. BreakLines looks at how it's compromising our response to the Jacob Blake shooting.

With the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on Sunday, the time has come to scrutinize the cost of victims failing to cooperate in police standoffs and the media's refusal to provide full context of their interactions - without which more black lives will be lost.

Rest assured, Democrats are more reflective of who we are as a nation than Republicans; they are not just a party of white people. But their growing obsession with diversity is neither just nor sustainable.