Recent News

• Policing the Open Road author Sarah Seo wrote at the Atlantic about the history of “dropsy”—police stopping motorists for vague reasons and then planting evidence while ostensibly searching their cars—illegal behavior that continues today, as shown by the recent arrest of Florida man (and former Sheriff’s deputy) Zachary Webster.
• At the Washington Post, Brian Rosenwald, author of Talk Radio’s America, analyzed last week’s White House summit for right-wing social media gadflies—a meeting designed to highlight purported bias by tech and social media companies but which in fact, he argues, legitimizes people and organizations who spread misinformation, thrive on dysfunction, and seek to deepen sociopolitical divides in the United States.
• On Texas Public Radio’s The Source, Benjamin Francis-Fallon, author of The Rise of the Latino Vote, discussed what “the Latino vote” actually means (and doesn’t)—and how Latino voters’ decisions will influence America’s 2020 elections.