BY Heather Cox Richardson | January 23, 2021 | Letters From an American
In the last, desperate days of his attempt to keep his grip on the presidency, Trump plotted with a lawyer in the Department of Justice, Jeffrey Clark, to oust the acting attorney general. Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | January 22, 2021 | Letters From an American
"What we're inheriting is so much worse than we could have imagined," said President Biden's coronavirus response coordinator Jeff Zients in a call with reporters. Another official said: “There is nothing for us to rework. We are going to have to build everything from scratch." Read More
BY Ti-Hua Chang | January 22, 2021 | Media
I have a story I want to share with my fellow journalists. It’s essence is: sometimes telling the truth requires taking a stand (though it must be done rarely and carefully) and neutrality is not necessarily objectivity. Read More
BY BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM | January 21, 2021 | Moyers on Democracy
New works from guests: Heather Cox Richardson, Jeff Sharlat, Eric Alterman and others. Read More
BY StudentNation | January 21, 2021 | Democracy & Government
From reimagining the Postal Service to combating climate change to reforming OIRA, students across the country told us what they think Biden’s top priority should be. Read More
BY Brett Wilkins | January 21, 2021 | Democracy & Government
The lifting of the so-called Muslim ban was one of numerous executive actions taken by Biden shortly after his inauguration and fufills a campaign promise he made to end the prohibition on "day one" of his administration. Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | January 21, 2021 | Letters From an American
In these terrible years, our politicians often failed us… but the American people did not. Our national guardrails often failed us… but the American people did not. Many of our neighbors often failed us, but the American people did not. Read More
BY David Dayen | January 20, 2021 | Health & Science
The nation’s biggest county has the biggest COVID outbreak. Plus, a memorial to the dead. Read More
BY Lynn Sherr | January 20, 2021 | Society
In their ongoing attempt to make sense of the world, the ancient Greeks told of hateful half-human beasts called Harpies. These mythical monsters, with the body of a bird and the head of a woman, lived up to their etymology (“harpazo” ([ἁρπάζω] to snatch or carry off; to seize, overpower…plunder) by stealing cherished items from individuals — or the individuals themselves — and so defiling or destroying them, they became untouchable. The contamination was lethal. If this sounds like the sadism of mobster families and horror movies, you get the picture. Or maybe you’re thinking of Donald J. Trump. We are not the ... Read More
BY Heather Cox Richardson | January 20, 2021 | Letters From an American
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. Read More
BY David Dayen | January 19, 2021 | Health & Science
The biggest challenge right now is getting shots into arms before the mutation takes over and surges cases. Read More
