You don’t get serious about democracy until you get the sense that it can be taken away.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. Follow him on Twitter: @ddayen.
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November 2, 2020A look around the country on election eve. This is The Election 2020 Daily Report for November 2, 2020
October 30, 2020Philadelphia is the birthplace of democracy. Will it die there, too?
October 30, 2020Democrats have learned this time that they need to compete hard here, to take advantage of demographic and voter sentiment changes (particularly in the suburbs) and win big in state legislatures, to either block unilateral Republican crafting of the maps or gain the power themselves.
October 29, 2020At some level, the ad cancellations are more accurate than the polls on the big questions of who may win easily and who’s still in a fight.
October 28, 2020This already blows away the 47 million who voted early in 2016, with a week and a day to go. And that tells you approximately nothing about the outcome of the presidential election or any other race on the ballot.
October 27, 2020This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Ballot You don’t need me to tell you that Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed last night as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, or that she promptly celebrated by joining the president at a political event at the White House, one that was quickly made into a political commercial, featuring roughly the same number of people that attended her ...
October 26, 2020If you close just bars and restaurants you’ve gone a surprisingly long way to eliminating spread, and minimizing the events that allow the virus to run rampant.
October 22, 2020The CARES Act delayed a reckoning that those economically affected by the pandemic should never have had to face. But that reckoning is finally here.
October 21, 2020Today is a “deadline” day for whether or not there will be an agreement on COVID relief before the election...
