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, one that allows chief executives to act in ways the framers of the Constitution never imagined, has been exposed. There are calls from…
Read More The Abnormal PresidencyWe 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 11:45 a.m. EST Black women saved Joe Biden. Without our support, the president-elect would be preparing a powerful speech about how despite…
Read More Black women saved the Democrats. Don’t make us do it again.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 report. Neural polarization intensified when videos included risk-related and moral-emotional language, highlighting content most likely to drive interpretations between conservatives and liberals, they note. For a given…
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