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I did not finish this, and it seems it was a bit too technical to interest anyone, but man, it is in the technical parts that the interest lies, and

Here are some questions I have about a post-Trump world.1. I would describe the Trump presidency as a national trauma. The trauma has involved *humiliating loss,* one of the most

This is the most revealing sentence: "Trump treated the debate like he was trying to win an argument between two baby mamas on a trash daytime show." Part of the

If you'd like to see the US flourish--that is to say, to be a kind-hearted and prosperous land of opportunity, where you can get ahead if you play by the

In poll after poll, we find the Americans no nothing. They don't know when the Civil War was fought. They don't know whether we should bomb Agrabah. They can't name

Every day, Trump does or says something so nuts, so indecent, so opposed to the my understanding of America--to the open, tolerant, and free America in which I grew up,

This combination of essays by @gcaw--together--is particularly powerful and suggests why we might not want to have a degenerate culture that glamorizes violence. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-defense-looting/615

I'd like to reply personally--genuinely, I would--to everyone who took time out of his or her busy schedule yesterday to share his or her thoughts with me about our political

because whether my view is well-informed or not, I'm a US citizen and I vote. There are 9 million more like me. Did you realize the American diaspora was that

The way Black people vote, or don't, affects every American citizen, and because the US is a superpower, the world. I reject wholeheartedly the idea that I'm only allowed to

Black turnout in 2016 was about 60 percent, just under turnout in 2004 and well under turnout rates in 2008 and 2012. Black Americans were targeted by sophisticated efforts to

This report confirms their may be links to White supremacist groups among US law enforcement. It isn't clear on the details.https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-