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North Carolina Keeps Breaking My Heart

This article was ostensibly going to be all about how Republican Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina seems to have come back to defeat Democratic challenger Cal Cunningham after trailing in the polls...

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Trump’s Divorce From Fox News Is Getting Ugly

Over the last four days, Fox News’s normal hierarchy has been inverted. Ordinarily, its opinion side—anchored by Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham—is the network’s beating heart, an...

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The Philadelphian Left Holds the Line

On Friday morning, after a full night spent counting and tabulating mail-in ballots, votes from Philadelphia may have delivered the final blow kicking President Trump out of the White House. Thursday,...

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The Power of the “Something Else” Vote

For all the praise that CNN’s graphics department has been raking in for its Trump-correcting chyrons, it was another visual from election night that caught my eye. Providing a breakdown of the Trump...

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Racial Tolerance Was on the Ballot—and Won

The defining story of the 2020 election is, of course, Joe Biden’s apparent victory over Donald Trump. Though Democrats fell short of a once-in-a-generation landslide victory, they convinced a...

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America’s Unlikely Savior

Sisyphus finally got the boulder up the hill. And Joe Biden—48 years after he was elected to the Senate and 33 years after he launched his first race for the White House—is president-elect.His belated...

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The Tragedy of Joe Biden’s Triumph

An unshakable feature of the last four years has been this heavy, crushing incredulity that Donald Trump managed to become president. A lot of things had to go right for him at once, and he was...

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The Election Is Over. Here’s a Vision From the Left for the Next Four Years.

We have a new president, but little else has changed in terms of the work ahead. A Biden administration may be more vulnerable to pressure from the left, but its positions on climate disaster, police...

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Donald Trump Lost the Election. He’s Losing His Party, Too.

Let’s be clear about what we are seeing. President Trump is doing all that he can to prevent ballots against him from being counted in an election he has now lost. He and his surrogates are encouraging...

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Trump Has Never Been More Dangerous Than He Is Now

Joe Biden is the president-elect of the United States. But we are now in President Trump’s lame-duck period, a roughly two-and-a-half-month interregnum that the country must endure before Biden takes...

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Trump Is Still the President, and the Pandemic Is Getting Worse

The election of Joe Biden as the forty-sixth president of the United States heralds a massive change in the U.S. approach to controlling the coronavirus pandemic—a shift from a president who has...

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A Weeklong Election, in Pictures

Most of America spent this week at home watching the events of this drawn-out election play out on their screens. But the anxiety, the anger, the joy, and the relief of this week didn’t take place...

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How Biden Can Beat Covid-19

In many ways, Decision 2020 came down to the pandemic. Vice President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris made coronavirus control a central part of their message to voters. “I’m not going to shut down the...

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Alaska Offers Biden the Slimmest of Hopes for a Democratic Senate

As the 2020 election finally unwinds, Democrats seeking a majority in the Senate have turned their eyes south, to the two pending runoff votes in Georgia, which could produce an even 50–50 split in the...

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In The Undoing, a Grisly Murder Rocks High Society Manhattan

Everybody loves to watch “smug marrieds”—to borrow Bridget Jones’s phrase—fall apart, and if they’re rich, then all the better. That lust for schadenfreude is what sells tabloid stories about celebrity...

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How to De-Trumpify the Justice Department

In late August, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that it had issued requests to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan concerning their handling of the coronavirus in...

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The Left Must Hit the Streets Again—Right Now

Enough about Donald Trump: The opportunity to plan beyond him is among the most important privileges the Democratic Party and the country won last week. Unless Democrats sweep the Georgia runoffs in...

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The Democrats Will Suffer if They Abandon the Green New Deal

Did Joe Biden’s much-publicized suggestion that he wanted to “transition” off fossil fuels during a presidential debate cost him the election? Evidently not. Biden is projected to flip Pennsylvania...

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Consider the Bootlicker

The Trump era is not yet over, and the Biden administration has not yet begun. There are still another two months for horrible things to continue to happen and then another four years for, hopefully,...

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Trump’s New Self-Care Routine: Filing Sad Lawsuits

President Trump does not believe in the legitimacy of the electoral process unless he wins—and sometimes, not even then. In 2016, he complained after the Iowa caucuses that “either a new election...

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