Grassroots Democrats Wanted to Protect the Vote. Then National Organizers...
Late Wednesday afternoon, as Election Day stretched into Election Week, in cities and towns across the United States, grassroots Democrats took to the streets under a new banner: Protect the Results. A...
View ArticleFree Will
So letting the bath run I saton the toilet & thought aboutkeeping the plug in till the waterspilt which made me think ifall things have as their cause whathappened how can you changecourse, prior...
View ArticleWill the Democrats Ever Make Sense of This Week?
This is not how things were supposed to go. It was widely anticipated, of course, that Joe Biden would defeat President Trump in a victory that could take time to emerge given the pandemic-driven shift...
View ArticleYaa Gyasi Versus the Identity Trap
Late in Homegoing, the debut novel by the Ghanaian-American writer Yaa Gyasi, a character named Marcus is introduced. Marcus is getting a Ph.D. in sociology at Stanford University, and—as happens—is...
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Sidewalks
I saw my breath this morning from a shiver of an engine in between sleep and consciousness today I don’t need any hospital socks to stay warm my windows are not barred my door is not a...
View ArticleLet’s Take a Moment to Check in With Some Extremely Rich People
The miserable presidential race is still underway, with stress-inducing counts slogging along in a handful of swing states; the much-rumored congressional blue wave turned out only to be a sad drip....
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North Carolina Keeps Breaking My Heart
This article was ostensibly going to be all about how Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina seems to have come back to defeat Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham after trailing in the polls...
View ArticleTrump’s Divorce From Fox News Is Getting Ugly
Over the last four days, Fox News’s normal hierarchy has been inverted. Ordinarily, its opinion side—anchored by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham—is the network’s beating heart, an...
View ArticleThe Philadelphian Left Holds the Line
On Friday morning, after a full night spent counting and tabulating mail-in ballots, votes from Philadelphia may have delivered the final blow kicking President Trump out of the White House. Thursday,...
View ArticleThe Power of the “Something Else” Vote
For all the praise that CNN’s graphics department has been raking in for its Trump-correcting chyrons, it was another visual from election night that caught my eye. Providing a breakdown of the Trump...
View ArticleRacial Tolerance Was on the Ballot—and Won
The defining story of the 2020 election is, of course, Joe Biden’s apparent victory over Donald Trump. Though Democrats fell short of a once-in-a-generation landslide victory, they convinced a...
View ArticleAmerica’s Unlikely Savior
Sisyphus finally got the boulder up the hill. And Joe Biden—48 years after he was elected to the Senate and 33 years after he launched his first race for the White House—is president-elect.His belated...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Joe Biden’s Triumph
An unshakable feature of the last four years has been this heavy, crushing incredulity that Donald Trump managed to become president. A lot of things had to go right for him at once, and he was...
View ArticleThe Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.
We have a new president, but little else has changed in terms of the work ahead. A Biden administration may be more vulnerable to pressure from the left, but its positions on climate disaster, police...
View ArticleDonald Trump Lost the Election. He’s Losing His Party, Too.
Let’s be clear about what we are seeing. President Trump is doing all that he can to prevent ballots against him from being counted in an election he has now lost. He and his surrogates are encouraging...
View ArticleTrump Has Never Been More Dangerous Than He Is Now
Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States. But we are now in President Trump’s lame-duck period, a roughly two-and-a-half-month interregnum that the country must endure before Biden takes...
View ArticleTrump Is Still the President, and the Pandemic Is Getting Worse
The election of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States heralds a massive change in the U.S. approach to controlling the coronavirus pandemic—a shift from a president who has...
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A Weeklong Election, in Pictures
Most of America spent this week at home watching the events of this drawn-out election play out on their screens. But the anxiety, the anger, the joy, and the relief of this week didn’t take place...
View ArticleHow Biden Can Beat Covid-19
In many ways, Decision 2020 came down to the pandemic. Vice President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris made coronavirus control a central part of their message to voters. “I’m not going to shut down the...
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