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Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions
SEP. 8, 2021, AT 6:00 AM By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía It took several months, but Texas Republicans have finally enacted their much-debated bill rolling back voting
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293,000+ deaths from COVID-19 to date more than 25,000 false or misleading statements the national debt increased by $7 trillion more recognition of Israel by Arab countries 666 children separated
The Etiquette of Defeat: What Donald Trump Can Learn From History’s Biggest Losers
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 decisiv
The Final Gasp of Donald Trump’s Presidency
By Olivia Nuzzi THE SWAMP NOV. 6, 2020 “A lot of what Trump says is the opposite of what he means. That’s true of all of us, to some extent,” the president’s friend said. Bu
‘People of Color’ Do Not Belong to the Democratic Party
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 reck
Can we hold Trump and his allies accountable without further splitting America?
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,
What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy
By Perry Bacon Jr. At nearly 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after Election Day 2016, the Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. Around
The Abnormal Presidency
In a sense, the election was a referendum on Trump’s norm-breaking. Now, as Trump shatters yet another norm by refusing to accept the result of the vote count, the office’s structural weakness,
Black women saved the Democrats. Don’t make us do it again.
We turn out reliably every election. But you can’t just vote white supremacy away. [Sister girl is speaking for me here. I can’t say it any better.] By Taylor Crumpton November 7, 2020 at
Imaging Shows the Brain Drives Political Divides
By Megan Brooks The study revealed evidence of “neural polarization” ― activity in the brain that differs between people who hold liberal vs conservative political views, the researchers repo