This essay is being published in conjunction with the launch of Meltdown — a new eight-episode Audible series that debuts on Oct. 28. Find the podcast here. American democracy is in the midst of a meltdown — the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and Republicans’ intensifying crusade to …
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I really liked President Biden’s address to the joint session of Congress in April. It’s as if he was saying, “Let’s do all the stuff we know we should do but haven’t done.” It was a long list. That’s because there’s a lot of stuff we know we should do …
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WASHINGTON — Here are three numbers to bear in mind on the eve of this election: 31. 99,000. 2.1 million. The first — 31 — is the number of states that set a new one-day record for Covid-19 infections at some point during the month of October. The second — …
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Michael Bloomberg has made clear he doesn’t care about missing the next Democratic debate, or any that may come after that. Confronting his remaining primary opponents, at least those who meet the DNC’s qualifications, doesn’t seem to mean much when he can use a personal fortune well in excess of …
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Even with the deaths of our elders today and the 400th anniversary of chattel slavery, we are often reminded that this terrible American past is within the reach of our oral, recorded history. Elijah Cummings, who died Thursday at 68, was the grandson of sharecroppers, the black tenant farmers who …
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When Virginia became one of the last two states to ratify the Constitution, in 1789, it was populated mostly by enslaved black people. Those captives were already being counted as three-fifths of a human being in America’s eyes, but white people in Virginia and in other slave states lived in …
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