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  1. So Long, Farewell
    1 Jan 2021 … On January 20, 2017, Trump took the oath of office and gave his “American Carnage” speech describing America as a hellscape, and we were off to the races. Continue reading
  2. The Best Journalism of 2020: Covering the Pandemic
    12 Dec 2020 … Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all—especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our abilities to comprehend and respond to it. Continue reading
  3. The Other NRA
    8 Aug 2013 … How the insidiously powerful restaurant lobby has fought mandatory earned sick leave policies and managed to keep the minimum wage for restaurant workers the same for over 20 years. Continue reading
  4. The Election-Go-Round: Democracy in Peril A voter returns his vote-by-mail ballot in the 2006 General elections in Lane County, Oregon. (CC 2.0, Flickr)
    8 Aug 2020 … Trump has no legal right to delay the federal elections without the consent of Congress, but his lack of legal authority has rarely stopped him. We know he will do almost anything to work the system and stay in power, Continue reading
  5. Gaming the System
    8 Aug 2020 … No one is pretending that Trump is going to win the popular vote. He’s not even trying to. He’s doubling down on the culture wars that excite his base in the hopes of getting them to turn out in strong Continue reading
  6. Transition Time
    11 Nov 2020 … Since Arizona has been called for Biden the numbers in Biden’s column now make up an insurmountable margin for Trump to overcome. Continue reading
  7. After the War: Aid Workers in Afghanistan, Carter and Gates in South Africa, and an Interview With Ruth Bader Ginsburg Justice Ginsburg headshot
    5 May 2002 … Dominic MacSorely of the humanitarian aid agency Concern Worldwide works to feed the starving people of Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter and Bill Gates aim to fight AIDS in Africa, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg talks glass ceilings. Continue reading
  8. When Hospital Workers Can’t Afford Health Care Healthcare workers on strike. (Credit: SEIU1199 NW)
    3 Mar 2013 … Nearly one-fifth of large companies are raising the cost of health insurance by only offering high-deductible “catastrophic” plans to employees. Continue reading
  9. The Failed Promise of “Objective” Political Reporting
    8 Aug 2020 … What if the mainstream, reality-based media armed its audience with facts as emphatically and effectively as Fox News arms its audience with misinformation? What if the New York Times aggressively advocated for the truth, rather than just putting it out Continue reading
  10. An Insurrection and a Second Impeachment
    1 Jan 2021 … A week ago, our Capitol was overrun by insurgents seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In their fury, they murdered a Capitol Police officer and came within a hair’s breadth of getting their hands on our Continue reading