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  1. Trump’s Ongoing Effort to Stamp Out the USPS
    8 Aug 2020 … What appears to be going on in Trump’s tweets is an attempt to rig the mechanics of the election to enable him to win by manipulating the ballots and counting. This, in turn, is leading to an attack on the Continue reading
  2. Barr Doubles Down
    7 Jul 2020 … Attorney General William Barr will testify before the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow for the first time. The Attorney General of the United States is, of course, not the president’s lawyer. The AG is supposed to be the attorney for the Continue reading
  3. Incitement and the First Amendment President Donald Trump speaks to supporters from the Ellipse at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, as the Congress prepares to certify the electoral college votes. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2021 … The feral mob brandished white supremacist and nazi flags that they held as they listened to Trump’s words and carried their odious standards into the Capitol building. These weren’t protestors exercising their constitutional rights. This was, as Shakespeare put it, Continue reading
  4. Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
    7 Jul 2020 … The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States. Continue reading
  5. The Other Election
    11 Nov 2020 … Biden had intended to make a victory speech, but the media seems oddly reluctant to call the election. That reluctance is odd enough that people are speculating as to why, suggesting that media administrators are afraid of the president’s fury Continue reading
  6. Trump’s Manifest Destiny Donald Trump speaks on the last day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2020 … Republican Senators plan to skip the Republican National Convention, Trump withdraws from the World Health Organization, the administration moves public money toward its supporters. Continue reading
  7. Fighting for Democracy Itself Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech on July 21, the last night of the Republican National Convention, in Cleveland. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2021 … In the storm of news it’s hard to figure out what’s going on, but here’s the bottom line: we are right now fighting over whether or not America will be a democracy. Continue reading
  8. Unsanitized: What Does the Election Mean for Stimulus? Store closing signs hang in the window of a Pier 1 imports store on February 18, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. The struggling retailer announced today that it had filed for bankruptcy and was closing 450 stores. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … First Response I am returning to the coronavirus beat today, and look what’s here to greet me: 100,000 new cases in a day, the first time that happened. I’d have thought it’d be more poetic for that to occur on Election Day, Continue reading
  9. The American Rescue Plan May Be the Most Crucial Legislation in Decades
    3 Mar 2021 … It is hard to overestimate the importance of this measure both for the present moment and as a sign of the direction in which the Democrats in charge of the United States hope to take the nation. Continue reading
  10. Trump’s Strange Twitter Narrative What do we make of Trump's tweetstorm over the weekend? A distraction from a distraction? Or worse? (Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2020 … It is becoming clearer that there are currently two different versions of America. The White House and Trump supporters are trying to pretend that the world Trump continually tweets about is real, while the rest of the country is proving Continue reading