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    Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on Reconciliation and Its Pitfalls
    January 28, 2021
    | Stephen West
    The post-Civil War years teach us the perils of heeding calls for reconciliation while ignoring those for justice.
  • Letters From an American
    QAnon Goes to Washington
    January 28, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Will Trump and his supporters seize control of the government—by means legal or illegal — or will the country steer itself back to the norms and values of democracy?

  • Letters From an American
    Biden: Following the Constitution
    January 27, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    The traditional way to govern the United States.
  • Letters From an American
    The GOP at the Crossroads
    January 26, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    What is taking oxygen today is the war between the two factions of the Republican Party: the Trump faction and the business faction.

  • War & Peace
    Indirect Deaths: The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad
    January 25, 2021
    | Andrea Mazzarino

    "With such human costs of war in mind, it’s a wonder to me that the only bipartisan bill passed by Congress over a presidential veto in the Trump years was the recent monumentally funded $740 billion “defense” bill. Most striking to me, however, amid its massive support for the military-industrial complex, is how little that bill does to expand social support for military families."

  • 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.

  • Letters From an American
    'What We're Inheriting Is So Much Worse Than We Could Have Imagined'
    January 22, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Day One's big news — that there was never any plan for a federal response to the coronavirus pandemic — was not entirely unexpected.
  • Democracy & Government
    Here’s What Students Think Biden Needs to Do in His First 100 Days
    January 21, 2021
    | StudentNation

    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.

  • Democracy & Government
    Joy, Relief, and Healing as Biden Ends Trump’s Racist Muslim Ban in Day One Executive Order
    January 21, 2021
    | Brett Wilkins

    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.

  • Letters From an American
    “Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?”
    January 21, 2021
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    America’s 22-year-old poet laureate Amanda Gorman asks the nation to work toward the dawn.


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