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Republicans’ ‘Canary in the Coal Mine’

Only a few short years ago, Chad Mayes was the Republican leader in the California State Assembly. Now he’s out of the party, running for reelection as an independent. Ahead of the Republican National Convention, he joins Edward-Isaac Dovere on the podcast The Ticket: Politics from the Atlantic to discuss the GOP and the long impact of Donald Trump.

Cornel West & Ben Jealous on the DNC and Whether Progressives Can Push Joe Biden Leftward

Harvard professor Cornel West and Ben Jealous, president of People for the American Way and former president of the NAACP, discuss the 2020 DNC, Joe Biden’s vow to fight systemic racism and “overcome this season of darkness in America,” the historic nomination of Kamala Harris as his partner on the ticket, and how the convention was a showcase for a broad anti-Trump coalition, including prominent Republican figures given plum speaking slots, but few voices from the party&rsq

“Light Is More Powerful Than Dark”: Biden Vows to Fight COVID, Climate, Racism & Economic Meltdown

We air highlights from Joe Biden’s highly anticipated speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, in which he formally accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, focused on the dangers of President Trump’s reelection and pledged to address the four simultaneous crises of systemic racism, the pandemic, the economic downturn and the climate crisis. “United, we can and will overcome this season of darkness in America,” Biden said.

Notre Dame claimed the moral high ground in reopening, but the virus wasn’t impressed

In late May of this year, Father John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame (UND), penned in the The New York Times what certainly ranks as one of the more sanctimonious op-eds ever published, in the Times or anywhere else, for that matter. He forcefully declared that his university would safely reopen in the fall, despite the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, aka COVID-19.

Citing his Catholic education (which he pointed out he shared with luminaries such as Dr.

U.N. removes survey meant ‘to eradicate racism and promote dignity’ after use of a racial slur

After sending out a survey to thousands of its staff members on racism Wednesday, the United Nations (U.N.) has been accused of racism itself. The survey included a question that requested individuals to identify themselves and listed “yellow” as an option, a term often used like “the orient” as a slur against Asian Americans. 

According to Reuters the survey entitled the “U.N.

Nuts & Bolts: Our conventions are a tale of two Americas

It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. For years, I’ve built this guide around questions that get submitted, hoping to help small candidates field questions.

The Trump administration is looking to sell stealth fighters in the Middle East

One of the nervous tics of the Donald Trump “administration” is a seeming obsession with new arms sales. Trump himself has boasted of and promoted the sales, and began doing so early on; he seems to regard weapons sales as something in his Professional Businessguy comfort zone, something with numbers attached, and hardball negotiations needed, and lots of opportunities for grifting around the edges.