Michelle Alexander

AllSides Media Bias Rating™: Lean Left
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Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander
Bias Rating Lean Left
Type Author
Region National
What a Lean Left Bias Rating Means

The source displays media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas.

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About Michelle Alexander's Bias Rating

Michelle Alexander is a author source with an AllSides Media Bias Rating™ of Lean Left.

What a "Lean Left" Rating Means

Sources with an AllSides Media Bias Rating of Lean Left display media bias in ways that moderately align with liberal, progressive, or left-wing thought and/or policy agendas. A Lean Left bias is a moderately liberal rating on the political spectrum.

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Michelle Alexander has a Lean Left media bias. She is an Opinion Page writer for The New York Times, writing on social justice, human rights, mass incarceration, and the law.

Alexander is best known for her 2010 book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. She writes extensively about racial bias in the criminal justice system and argues that "mass incarceration in America functions as a system of racial control in a similar way to how Jim Crow [laws] once operated," according to Wikipedia.

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