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Democracy & Government
  • Letters From an American
    Just Another Friday Night News Dump
    August 8, 2020

    America’s top news continues to touch on the upcoming election. The Friday night news dump was about the United States Postal Service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump loyalist, has recently created new rules for the agency that have dramatically slowed the delivery of mail just as mail-in voting for 2020 has begun. Today, DeJoy overhauled the USPS, releasing a new organizational chart that displaces postal executives with decades of experience and concentrates power in DeJoy ...

  • Letters From an American
    The NRA within the Sights
    August 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Millions missing and a Russian spy.
  • Letters From an American
    Trump has a Terrible Kodak Moment
    August 6, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Plus, the New York AG investigation into his finances is just beginning
  • Fight to Vote
    The Voting Rights Act at 55
    August 6, 2020
    One of the most important pieces of legislation in American history
  • Letters From an American
    The Disastrous Axios Interview and So Much More!
    August 5, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The Axios interview showed little that we didn’t already know, but to see the president dismiss the 156,000 deaths from coronavirus, for example, by saying “it is what it is,” was nonetheless shocking.

  • Letters From an American
    Gaming the System
    August 4, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    It is all about the Electoral College now
  • Money & Politics
    Trump’s Tax Cuts Were a Disaster. Naturally, Republicans Want Even More.
    August 4, 2020
    | Kevin Drum

    Lies about tax cuts have determined the course of America’s economy, and the individual fortunes of millions of families including yours, for decades.

  • Democracy & Government
    Don’t Let the Trump Administration Rush the Census Count
    August 4, 2020
    | Theresa Riley
    The 2020 Census is the largest, most complex population count in the nation’s history that affects redistricting, federal funding and a host of other policy decisions for a decade. It's crucial we get the count right.
  • Letters From an American
    Trump's Scattershot Campaign Strategy
    August 3, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Throw everything at the wall...
  • Media
    The Failed Promise of “Objective” Political Reporting
    August 3, 2020
    | Dan Froomkin

    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 there for the record?



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