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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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Trump’s Battle to Undermine the Vote in Pennsylvania
Since November 3rd, Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic state representative from Philadelphia, has received a stream of threatening text messages and…
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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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Sunday Reading: The Choice in 2020
In 2018, Roger Angell published an urgent call in this magazine to vote. He had cast his first vote for…
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Donald Trump Is Attacking American Democracy at Its Core
One thing you cannot accuse Donald Trump of is trying to disguise his nefarious intentions. For months now, legal experts…
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Georgia Voters Get Another Reason to Be Worried
Last week, when President Trump urged voters in North Carolina to vote twice—first by mail and then in person—ostensibly to…
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Battling Anxiety Over Making Sure Your Vote Gets Counted
As if 2020 had not frayed nerve endings enough, now begins a season of brain-frying electoral anxiety. As President Trump…
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What Was Missing from the Postmaster General’s Senate Testimony
Friday morning’s appearance by the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had the…
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Trump’s Attack on the Postal Service Is a Threat to Democracy—and to Rural America
I’ve lived most of my life in small towns in pretty remote rural areas. Some were in red regions, some…
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