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Politics

Election 2020

Michael Tomasky

What Did the Democrats Win?

The minority repeatedly thwarting the will of the majority is intolerable and untenable.

December 17, 2020 issue

Walter M. Shaub Jr.

The Presidential Transition Meets Murphy’s Law

One senior official is charged with ensuring a peaceful transfer of power when there is an apparent election winner. The Trump appointee is jeopardizing all that.

November 13, 2020

Fintan O’Toole

Democracy’s Afterlife

Trump, the GOP, and the rise of zombie politics.

December 3, 2020 issue

Developments Since My Birth

October 27, 2020

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

How Societies Go Backward

November 19, 2020 issue

Annette Gordon-Reed

Hopes for the American Experiment

November 19, 2020 issue

How Trump Won

He failed as an autocrat, despite opponents’ overblown fears, but succeeded in breaking the neoliberal consensus of the Beltway. We ignore that at our peril.

November 9, 2020

How Trump Lost

If he’d governed as he ran in 2016, as an economic populist, he would likely have been reelected. Instead, he reverted to the same old Republican playbook.

November 7, 2020

The Latest

Shirley Elizabeth Thompson

On Race and Property in the South

“There is just something about the robustness of Black cultural institutions and networks in the South that can’t be matched elsewhere.”

November 28, 2020

Lauren Kaori Gurley

Labor’s Uphill Battle

November 1, 2020

Counting Down

November 1, 2020

Is the Election Safe from Hacking?

The vulnerabilities are real. But so are the things citizens can do to help safeguard their votes.

October 31, 2020

Biden’s Most Daunting Adversary

October 31, 2020

Our Reckoning with Race

October 31, 2020

Madeleine Schwartz

Anywhere But Here

October 30, 2020

Don’t Wish for a Restoration

November 19, 2020 issue

What Has Minimalist Democracy Gotten Us?

November 19, 2020 issue

Rashly Filling the Void

November 19, 2020 issue

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