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Editors’ Note

WITH WHITE MORTALITY RATES soaring as a result of opioid

How Race Made the Opioid Crisis

IN MARCH 2018, President Donald Trump delivered a forty-minute

Race and the First Opium Crisis

FOLLOWING THE RACIST LOGIC Donna Murch exposes in the

Black Drugs, White Drugs

DONNA MURCH SHOWS that we continue to live in a world

The Cure Amplifies the Problem

DONNA MURCH’S masterful description of the roots of

No Gentler War on Drugs

DONNA MURCH is right that the rhetoric on drugs has

The Supremacy of Toughness

AT THE HEART of Donna Murch’s analysis is a warning:

Denying Racism

THE WAR ON DRUGS is one of the most ill-conceived,

From Absolution to Accountability

FROM OUR VANTAGE POINT, lying on the floor, watching

Public Policy Made Americans the Biggest Consumers of Opioids in the World

Public Policy Made Americans the Biggest Consumers

Bankers and Empire

SCRUBBED FROM THE PAGES of glossy coffeetable books

Branded

IN THE PHOTOGRAPH Branded Head (2003), the shape of

Reproducing Racial Capitalism

TODAY IT IS POSSIBLE for an individual or couple to

Succeeding While Black

MICHELLE OBAMA’S POPULARITY is a remarkable political

Democratizing Elitism

MANY AMERICANS think of college—and especially the