2020

BY DANIEL MENDELSOHN  NOV 17, 2020 “I concede nothing.” With those three words, tweeted out nearly two weeks after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, which handed him a decisive electoral and popular defeat, Donald Trump took his place in one of the longest and most distinguished traditions that history offers: the sore loser. But if history and…

Read More The Etiquette of Defeat: What Donald Trump Can Learn From History’s Biggest Losers

Last night, I wanted something but it was too late to go anywhere and I wasn’t sure what I wanted anyway. I looked in my crowded fridge for something, anything appealing. Nothing. Cake? Too much work. Pie? Really too much work. Candy? Not in the mood. Ice cream? I want warm, or at least room…

Read More A Little Bread Pudding

By Jay Caspian Kang Nov. 20, 2020 In the wake of the election, there has been a concerted call to stop treating Latinos and, to a lesser extent, Asian-Americans as a monolith. Such a reckoning is long overdue and certainly necessary. The easiest and perhaps most logical move would be to disaggregate “Latinos” and “Asian-Americans” — and…

Read More ‘People of Color’ Do Not Belong to the Democratic Party

Make cornbread: 1 cup flour, 1 cup cornmeal, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 stick of butter, 2 eggs, 1/2 teaspoon baking soda and 1 cup buttermilk OR 1 cup regular milk and no baking soda. Melt butter in 8 inch cast iron skillet in the oven as it preheats. Mix everything else in a bowl,…

Read More Thanksgiving Stuffing

Sleep is really important, and getting enough sleep is essential for good health. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults age 18 to 64 get seven to nine hours of sleep a night, and seven to eight hours if you’re 65 or older. Not getting enough sleep can cause all kinds of problems: Not getting…

Read More Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

By Samuel Huneke November 16, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EST While there are critical differences between what this administration is suspected of doing and the violence committed by Nazi Germany, the commentariat often compares Trumpism to Nazism. [I]f denazification’s principal purpose was to convince ordinary Germans of the wrongness of Nazism, then it was at best a…

Read More Can we hold Trump and his allies accountable without further splitting America?