Republicans got all the concessions they asked for with the insurrection commission bill, yet McConnell wants…
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Yes, You Should Be Watching the Impeachment Trial Live
On Wednesday afternoon, the House impeachment managers laid out the series of tweets, speeches, and interviews…
Continue ReadingJoe Biden Wants You to Just Calm the Heck Down
His success consistently comes from turning down the temperature. Remember, back in the Obama days, this old…
Continue ReadingLaTosha Brown Is Only Getting Started
The Black Voters Matter co-founder is organizing voters ahead of Georgia’s Senate runoffs, but her work…
Continue ReadingHow My Congressman Helped Trump Attempt a Coup
And why that’s somehow even more offensive than Trump himself. Occasionally, out of some vestigial reflex, I…
Continue ReadingYour Most Paranoid Questions About Trump’s Refusal to Concede, Answered
Joe Biden will become president on January 20, 2021. Donald Trump’s refusal to concede and accept the…
Continue ReadingDemocrats Don’t Deserve Latino Votes Just Because They’re the Less Racist Party
The day after the election, I woke up at 4 a.m. to do my first live…
Continue ReadingStop Scapegoating Donald Trump
The president didn’t get us into this mess on his own— he had enablers at every…
Continue ReadingThere Was a Party Outside Joe Biden’s Childhood Home Yesterday
Biden’s agitprop version of the city might be a bit outdated — Scranton now counts higher…
Continue ReadingKamala Harris Is Our Symbol of a Better Future
With our rights in the crosshairs, the vice president-elect is exactly the kind of feminist figurehead…
Continue ReadingReliving Election Night 2016, Through FiveThirtyEight’s Live Blog
9:11 a.m. Clare Malone greets us with “Welcome to the big show,” and a reminder that…
Continue ReadingWe Are on the Verge of Transforming From an ‘I’ Society to a ‘We’ Society
GEN: What are the most significant parallels between the Gilded Age and today? Robert Putnam: Great…
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