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    The Best Journalism of 2020: Covering Trump
    December 18, 2020
    | Ian W. Karbal

    The following list, which dates to the 2016 election, is a collection of excellent journalism about an unprecedented presidency, written in an extraordinary time.

  • Letters From an American
    The Story of a Hack
    December 18, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    “This is looking like it’s the worst hacking case in the history of America. They got into everything.” -- AP source
  • Letters From an American
    The White House Played a Doctor on TV
    December 17, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Stories about what exactly happened in the Trump administration are coming out, and they are not pretty. Politics trumped everything for members of the administration, even our lives.

  • Letters From an American
    Primary Favorite Pete Buttigieg Steps Forward
    December 16, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Plus, the Trump administration may be sabotaging vaccine delivery when Biden takes office
  • Democracy & Government
    Decades of Inequality Shadow Voter Turnout in Rural Georgia
    December 15, 2020
    | Steven Rosenfeld
    A small-town voter drive reveals why only trusted family, friends and local leaders can boost turnout in the Senate runoffs.
  • Health & Science
    The Best Journalism of 2020: Covering the Pandemic
    December 15, 2020
    | Columbia Journalism Review

    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.

  • Letters From an American
    The Electoral College Has Spoken
    December 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    But don't forget COVID, the budget war, Bill Barr and Russian meddling
  • Health & Science
    Unsanitized: Vaccination, Just Billions of Dollars Away From Success
    December 14, 2020
    | David Dayen

    A lot of positive signs, but states need money to distribute the doses.

  • Letters From an American
    Moving Ahead on Vaccines
    December 14, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    While a president-elect generally stays quiet in the weeks before taking office under the principle that America has only one president at a time, Biden is indicating that he will not stay silent in the face of mounting deaths the White House refuses to acknowledge.

  • Letters From an American
    The Larger Story Is Not Over
    December 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Republicans could reject the ideology of the Confederacy and reclaim the Party of Lincoln


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