Sarah Jaffe for Truthout: Members of a response network that deploys nurses to disaster zones report from Houston.
Trump's cynical distortion of the anthem protests to feed his racist base gets us back to the real subject. This brouhaha, of course, is all about race.
Peter Dreier is the E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and chair of the Urban & Environmental Policy Department at Occidental College. His most recent book is The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame (Nation Books, 2012).
