What do members of the U.S. middle class have to say about racial injustice? In a preview of their upcoming paper, Jennifer Silva and Tiffany Ford share insights from the discussions they had with a broad range of middle-class Americans on the issue of race, both in the months leading up to the COVID-19 crisis and in the early days of the pandemic.
A little more than a year ago, China had almost no diplomatic presence on Twitter, but today, more than 170 accounts bicker with Western powers, promote conspiracies about the coronavirus, and troll Americans on issues of race. Jessica Brandt and Bret Schafer explain China’s playbook on social media and how effective it really is.
“Even when the health crisis wanes, there will be pressures in two directions: one to put the old arrangements back into place just as they were before the pandemic hit, and the other to keep the crisis adaptations that have worked, at least for some students and their families,” write Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim.
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