Two Visions Are in a Fight to Control Our Government
BY Heather Cox Richardson | November 29, 2020
It seems as if Trump and President-Elect Joe Biden are in a contest to see who can will their vision of the future into life. Read More
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Leaving Loaded Dice on the Table for Biden
BY Heather Cox Richardson | November 28, 2020 | Letters From an American
President-Elect Joe Biden is making it clear he intends to rebuild the institutions and alliances Trump has gutted. Read More
A National Day of Thanksgiving
BY Heather Cox Richardson | November 26, 2020 | Letters From an American
Rather than being unprecedented, though, this year of hardship and political strife brings us closer to the first national Thanksgiving than any more normal year. Read More
Who Owns the Old Tweets: The Presidential Records Act
BY Ruby Walsh | November 25, 2020 | Democracy & Government
Prior to the passage of the Presidential Records Act in 1978 documents handled by the president were considered private property. Read More
Unsanitized: Being Thankful in a Pandemic Out of the tragedy comes a few distinct advances.
BY David Dayen | November 25, 2020 | Society
The pandemic has made us a more social people. That sounds paradoxical, given the fact that so many of us have locked away in our homes for the past eight months. Read More
Janet Yellen: A Popular Choice
BY Heather Cox Richardson | November 25, 2020 | Letters From an American
Janet Yellen’s expected nomination is yet another Biden pick that emphasizes stability and a return to a government to which Americans had become accustomed before Trump’s election. Read More
I Beg Your Pardon
BY James D. Zirin | November 25, 2020 | Democracy & Government
Of course, Trump might try to pardon himself. Then, he won’t need Biden, but legal scholars are uniformly of the view that self-pardon won’t stick. Read More
Agitated Trump Supporters Coalescing into Distrustful New Election Integrity Movement
BY Steven Rosenfeld | November 24, 2020 | Economy & Work
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Georgia’s Trump supporters are not giving up. On Saturday, scores massed outside the statehouse in Atlanta, a small sea of mostly men in red MAGA hats hoisting signs hurling accusations against Joe Biden and wearing campaign T-shirts saying “STOP the STEAL.” It barely mattered that Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had certified Biden’s unexpected nearly 13,000-vote victory one day before. Also irrelevant was Georgia’s unprecedented manual hand count of presidential votes on 5 million paper ballots, which was more than any 2020 swing state has done ... Read More
Unsanitized: No Double Dip Recession for the Millions in Depression
BY David Dayen | November 24, 2020 | Economy & Work
The pandemic has supercharged inequality. Millions of people suffering aren’t just getting the cold shoulder from Congress; they’re about to get dumped off the “COVID cliff” — a number of relief policies that expire at the end of December. Read More
GOP: Get With The Program
BY Heather Cox Richardson | November 24, 2020 | Letters From an American
Michigan’s certification of its election results pushed the General Services Administration, and some of the GOP itself, to call for the beginning of the transition process. Read More
7 Ways Biden Can Fight Climate Change Without Any Help from Congress
BY Rebecca Leber | November 23, 2020 | Environment
To deliver on his promises of “getting climate under control,” Biden will need to follow the prevailing science that suggests the United States achieve about a 45 percent reduction in its greenhouse gas pollution by 2030. Read More
