election 2020 commentary
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What Should We Call the Sixth of January?
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Donald Trump tweeted before Christmas. “Be there, will be wild!” On New Year’s…
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Biden’s Victory in the Electoral College Was a Welcome Affirmation of Democracy
Monday, December 14th, has long been marked on the political calendar as the moment when the Electoral College—that antiquated, rickety,…
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The Supreme Court Rejects Texas’s Shameful Lawsuit, But There Has to Be a Reckoning
When the state of Texas asked the Supreme Court, this week, to disenfranchise millions of voters in four other states—Georgia,…
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The G.O.P. Can No Longer Be Relied On to Protect Democracy
How low has the Party of Lincoln fallen? In answering this question, it is instructive to look at the example…
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It’s Not Just Trump’s War on Democracy Anymore
The streets are still quiet in Washington, nine months into a pandemic that is reaching yet another deadly peak. Most…
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Trump and a Lesson in How Coups Fail
On October 1, 1988, Harry Barnes, Ronald Reagan’s Ambassador to Chile, sent an alarming cable to Assistant Secretary of State…
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State and Local Republicans Standing Up to Trump Are Putting National G.O.P. Leaders to Shame
As Donald Trump has escalated his assault on the U.S. democratic process over the past few days, an interesting and…
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Kamala Harris and the Noble Path of the Prosecutor
In the opening of her memoir, “The Truths We Hold,” from 2019, Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris writes that, as a law…
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Republican Officials Have Got to Start Telling Their Voters the Truth About the Election
On November 8th, the morning after the A.P. and other news organizations, looking at the votes that had been counted…
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Democracy Depends on Good Losers
“Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser,” Vince Lombardi, a New Yorker (coaching at Fordham and…
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