Charlottesville’s Race Riot United Bigotry With Misogyny
The man who mowed down anti-racist activist Heather Heyer and injured 35 others used to beat his mother. And he's far from the only white supremacist with a history of domestic violence.
Kate Tuttle
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President of the National Book Critics Circle, Kate Tuttle writes about books for the Boston Globe. Her reviews have also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Washington Post, and Newsday. Her essays on raising children, race and politics, and coming to terms with her own 1970s childhood, have appeared in Dame, The Rumpus, The Atlantic, and elsewhere. Follow her @katekilla
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It's a privilege to name our kids what we like—one that can strip them of others in a culture that values Whiteness above all else.
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Getting a kid to sleep through the night, in his own bed, is nearly every parent's dream. Are we just too exhausted to make it come true?
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Once thought to be favored only by religious families like the Duggars, taking education in-house is now finding a whole new class of practitioners.
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