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  • Letters From an American
    Can the New Cabinet Shut the Door on the Past?
    January 24, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The trick for business Republicans will be to see whether they can get rid of the authoritarian Trump supporters without enabling Democrats to rebuild the New Deal state the Republicans have just spent decades gutting.

  • Democracy & Government
    Tracking the Trump Administration’s “Midnight Regulations”
    November 30, 2020
    | ProPublica
    The administration is rushing to implement dozens of policy changes in its final days. We’re following some of the most consequential and controversial.
  • Letters From an American
    Biden Attempts to Move Ahead: Trump Obstructs
    November 19, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    November 18, 2020 Today marks a grim milestone. The official count of Americans dead of coronavirus has topped a quarter of a million. 250,000 Americans, lost. Governors, including some Republicans previously opposed to ordering measures to stop the spread of the virus, are now issuing mandatory mask requirements. New York City has reached a 3% positivity rate; schools there have closed, and will go entirely on-line tomorrow. That rate is far below that of the regions ...

  • Letters From an American
    Chaos from Trump. Calm from Biden
    November 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today President-Elect Joe Biden named his chief of staff. He has picked Ronald A. Klain, 59, a veteran Democratic operative with degrees from Georgetown and Harvard Law School, who has worked in and around Washington, D.C., since 1987, when he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Klain was Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president.

  • No Choice
    Unsanitized: Deadline Day for Pre-Election Stimulus Comes, And Will Go
    October 21, 2020
    | David Dayen

    Today is a “deadline” day for whether or not there will be an agreement on COVID relief before the election...

  • Letters From an American
    Hot Seats
    October 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    October 6, 2020 In the past three years, it has so often felt like things were reaching the breaking point. But the image of Trump on the balcony of the White House last night, defiantly taking off his mask as he gasped for breath, truly looked to me like the beginning of the final chapter. Today coronavirus infections continued to mount in the vicinity of the White House. At least 34 people near Trump have contracted the ...

  • Democracy & Government
    Journalist Jeff Sharlet's Ominous America
    June 25, 2020
    Sharlet goes inside Trump rallies and a political Christian conservative group, The Family.
  • Letters From an American
    Secreting Behind the Barricades in the "People's House"
    June 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Protests continued for a tenth day today in the face of ongoing police brutality. That statement is going to anger some readers, but hoo, boy, the images of the police attacking peaceful protesters and journalists are going to be in textbooks in a few years, and our great grandchildren are going to ask how on earth this happened.

  • War & Peace
    Trump's Generals Have Failed Up
    September 6, 2017
    | Tom Engelhardt
    In America’s wars, failure is the new success.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Activists Who Helped Shut Down Trump’s CEO Councils
    August 21, 2017
    | Sarah Anderson
    The implosion of these high-level advisory bodies followed a months-long grass-roots campaign calling on CEOs to reject the president’s hate-filled agenda.


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