Ben Carson, Donald Trump, and the Misuse of American History (The New Yorker)

There has been no small amount of ink spilled over the rise of racism - or at least more overt racism - accompanying Donald Trump's ascendancy. Jelani Cobb argues that white America's obsessive maintenance of a vision of the past free of racism and slavery hampers our collective ability to recognize and respond to the present. Assuming you haven't used up your free articles for the month, it can be read here.