Roundup

Millions of Americans have Risen Up and Said: Democracy Won't Die on Our Watch

by Carol Anderson

Every maneuver by Trump and his enablers to block voting was met with a more powerful and effective counter-maneuver by citizens. It had to be.

Reclaiming American Idealism: We Could Use A Leader Like George McGovern Again

by William J. Astore

Since the American voters rejected the antimilitaristic candidacy of George McGovern in 1972 the country has come to tolerate astonishing levels of mass death, of which COVID is only the latest instance.

Trump Will Never Surrender, Just Like Jefferson Davis

by Jamie Stiehm

"Davis was imprisoned after the Civil War, a fate that may await the outgoing president. Too bad they can't be cellmates. They're soul mates."

A Convergence of Calamities: The War Refugee Crisis will be Dwarfed by Climate

by Nick Turse

The crisis of people displaced by war is set to be compounded by the accelerating problems of desertification, drought, flooding and famine brought on by climate change. 

By Humoring Trump, The GOP Is Enabling Authoritarianism

by Max Boot

"One senior Republican official told The Post: 'What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change.' What’s the downside? Only the undermining of our democracy."

The Keystone State is Ringing

by Ed Simon

"Far more capable tyrants than Trump have been felled by Pennsylvania. This vanquishing feels like George Meade turning back Picket’s Charge at Gettysburg."

A Battle Between the Two Souls of America

by Ibram X. Kendi

We the people of the United States do not have a single national soul, but rather two souls, warring with each other. The battle for the soul of America is actually the battle between the souls of America.

Trump Needs Three Consecutive Hail Mary Passes

by Richard L. Hasen

A leading election law expert suggests that it would take a combination of longshots for Trump's legal strategy to overturn the will of the voters to succeed. But even if it ultimately fails it has already corroded the norms and processes of democracy. 

Voting Trump Out Is Not Enough

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

The results of the 2020 election show that the Democratic Party will fail unless it is willing to abandon a futile effort to woo Republicans to the center and embrace popular policies that meet the needs of Democratic constituents. 

Trump Politicized COVID-19. Let’s Not Politicize The Vaccine.

by Max Boot

"If the Pfizer vaccine helps to free us from the threat of COVID-19, there will be plenty of credit to go around — and it won’t conform to narrow partisan categories. Reality is too messy for ideology."

Black Feminists Taught Democrats To Go Broad And Win Big

by Erica R. Edwards and Sherie M. Randolph

Since the late 1960s, Black feminist activists have viewed grass-roots participatory democracy as means of radically reversing systemic inequalities by enfranchising the disenfranchised and engaging the people who are routinely seen as politically untouchable in debate and consensus-building.

I Was a Detroit Poll Challenger. The GOP Came to Make Havoc.

by Danielle L. McGuire

"The counting hadn’t even started yet; the ballots hadn’t yet arrived at the counting boards and already it was clear that the GOP challengers were there to sow confusion and suspicion."

Black Women Led Us Through The Most Consequential Political Contest Of Our Lifetimes. It’s High Time We Thank Them.

by Martha S. Jones

"It is a regrettable burden, saving a nation from its worst self. Black women have borne that weight for two centuries, challenging this country to jettison its most costly sins including slavery, Jim Crow, and the denial of human rights."

State of Chaos: Donald Trump Knew Us Better Than We Knew Ourselves

by Tom Engelhardt

The most dire aspect of the Trump presidency was his apparent willingness to accelerate the process of catastrophic climate change that might really create the "end of history." 

Trump's Latest Executive Order is a Head Scratcher to Historians

by Jim Grossman

"There is no shortage of contentious publications and conversations among professional historians about concepts like critical race theory or arguments like those advanced in the 1619 Project. But neither constitutes “child abuse,” which is a serious crime."

Trump Won't Accept Defeat. Ever

by Anne Applebaum

"This is a president who never had America’s interests at heart. Do not expect loss to change him."

Confronting the Damage of Trumpism

by David W. Blight

To rebuild a society and a political system, we must admit that they are broken. Institutionally, America is broken.

How Biden Can Govern in Spite of Everything

by Kevin Baker

Joe Biden's chances for success rest with demonstrating his empathy for Americans' problems. "Franklin Roosevelt was 'the only man we ever had in the White House who would understand that my boss is a son-of-a-bitch,' as a North Carolina textile mill worker once said of F.D.R."

Historically Black Colleges and Universities are Remaking American Politics

by Crystal R. Sanders

The 2020 presidential election has debunked the myth that historically Black colleges do not prepare students to work in white-dominated institutions, and demonstrated that HBCUs have prepared their alumni to change the world one precinct, one county and one state at a time.

Cienfuegos Must also Answer for the Apatzingán Massacre

by Laura Castellanos

The former Secretary of National Defense for Mexico has been arrested on charges related to drug trafficking. He must face accountability for overseeing a security regime that perpetrated coordinated violence against journalists and civilians.