Chapter 36: Everything Else
Democrats will retain control of the House with a reduced majority and are still fighting for the Senate.
The president-elect plans to focus heavily on the pandemic while the president, who has not conceded the election, presses ahead with legal challenges in states where he is trailing in the vote count.
"At the bare minimum, we should aspire to be better than what we have been before," says New York Democrat in new interview. "People need to feel hope."
"Turns out there were no 'Biden Republicans.'"
Joe Biden is the President-elect, CNN projected Saturday morning, winning on a message of unity and a pledge to restore the "soul of the nation" after four years of tumult under President Donald Trump.
President-elect Joe Biden is planning to quickly sign a series of executive orders after...
Loaded with nearly twice as much money as the GOP, the Democrats showed that weak candidates with no robust agendas for people where they live, work, and raise their families, is a losing formula... Apart from barely squeezing through the swing states to defeat corrupt, incompetent, lying, corporatist Donald Trump, the Democratic Party had a bad election.Loaded with nearly twice as much money as the Republican Party, the Democratic Party showed that weak candidates with no robust agendas for people where they live, work, and raise their families, is a losing formula. And lose they did against the worst, cruelest, ignorant, lawbreaking, reality-denying GOP in its 166-year history.
Without a strong progressive program as a rudder, the Biden presidency will be awash in much the same old rhetorical froth and status-quo positions that have so often caused Democratic incumbents to founder, bringing on GOP electoral triumphs... The evident defeat of Donald Trump would not have been possible without the grassroots activism and hard work of countless progressives. Now, on vital issues—climate, healthcare, income inequality, militarism, the prison-industrial complex, corporate power and so much more—it’s time to engage with the battle that must happen inside the Democratic Party.
Without a strong progressive program as a rudder, the Biden presidency will be awash in much the same old rhetorical froth and status-quo positions that have so often caused Democratic incumbents to founder, bringing on GOP electoral triumphs... The evident defeat of Donald Trump would not have been possible without the grassroots activism and hard work of countless progressives. Now, on vital issues—climate, healthcare, income inequality, militarism, the prison-industrial complex, corporate power and so much more—it’s time to engage with the battle that must happen inside the Democratic Party.
"You get what you organize for," said Rep. Ilhan Omar. "Direct voter contact wins elections," added Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
Immigration Nation shows a government that is unapologetically cruel
I stumbled across this online meme recently, and it sparked something deep within my black, bloodless knot of a heart. My immediate, visceral reaction? ...
The country is facing several crises at once, and we have no idea how to process them all.
The President-elect’s cabinet appointments speak to a harsh reality: this is an anti-science Administration.
"Behind your back they laugh at you ..." the former NYC mayor tweeted.
"Trump has once again put the interests of oil and gas executives ahead of the interests of people and communities."
Parsing the unparseable.
The president has overturned a 50-year waiver that allows the state to set its own standards—but California, allied with other states, is fighting back.
Trump and Putin blame wind turbines for bird deaths, but the real numbers show a lesser-known killer claims the most avian lives by far.
During an April 2 speech to the National Republican Congressional Committee, President Donald Trump once again attacked wind power, falsely claiming that noise from turbines causes cancer and that turbines sink property values by 75 percent. Both claims are unsubstantiated.
President Trump has a history of putting his personal interests and political interests ahead of the nation's interest. Be very wary as November nears.
The President-elect’s cabinet appointments speak to a harsh reality: this is an anti-science Administration.
The White House's crude deflections on science aren't simply ignorant — they're calculated to serve the fossil fuel industry at the entire planet's expense.
The Washington Monthly explores the policy consequences of a second Trump term.