Just hours after Joe Biden was declared president-elect of the United States, and as massive celebrations gripped cities around the country, Dave Chappelle took the Saturday Night Live stage to puncture the jubilant mood. He started his monologue with a story about his great-grandfather, who’d been born into slavery in South Carolina. “I thought about him all day today, because I wish I could see him now.
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In Florida, tens of thousands of newly eligible voters who were previously disenfranchised due to their criminal records turned out to the polls for the 2020 election. Amendment 4, a measure that in 2018 overturned a Jim Crow-era law aimed at keeping African Americans from voting, restored voting rights to people with nonviolent felonies who have completed their sentences and was hailed as the biggest win for voting rights in decades.
President Trump has only made one brief public appearance since the election was called for Joe Biden, and his Twitter feed is filled with conspiracy theories about widespread voter fraud, which state elections officials have repeatedly rejected.
Not only is she beautiful—she’s brilliant and charming.
The tabloid built its business on some of the same wild tactics it used to catch its biggest scoops.
It’s time to have the conversation with loved ones. Here’s how to do it gracefully.
The politicization of mask-wearing shows how difficult it will be for Joe Biden to build consensus around even basic public health strategies after he’s sworn in.
“The personal goal is just to be seen.
Even where they don’t elect Democrats, voters love minimum-wage hikes, marijuana, and Medicaid expansions.
Biden’s transition team must plan for a crisis response without access to essential information about the nation’s supply chains and testing supplies.
The news comes days after Pfizer revealed that initial data suggest its vaccine is more than 90 percent effective.
Care facilities can’t keep the virus out as it spreads through communities.
“They need a lifeline and they need it now,” he said.
How can I make things go back to the way they were?
They casually talk about sexual abuse, and they don’t know that it’s happened to me.
Biden will inherit an economy similar to one he and Obama did 12 years ago. But unlike last time, he’ll have few tools to deal with it.
The latest episode of POLITICO’s Global Translations podcast explores the new industrial policy emerging in America to counter China’s ascent.
The economy weighs heavily on voters’ minds.
The gains are a sign of positive trader sentiment, although it’s unclear if that has to do with hopes of a clear winner emerging.
Trump got a great economic report to use on the campaign trail. But behind the surface, giant risks are looming.
Dancing on Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni, curfew measures in Bucharest, coronavirus testing in the U.K., monowheel broomsticks in Brazil, a marigold harvest in Kathmandu, celebrations of Joe Biden’s presidential win, a press conference at Philadelphia’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Veteran’s Day memorials, a wedding in Moscow, and much more.
It’s not what the president is reportedly telling people right now.
The conservative justice criticized science-backed COVID-19 restrictions and condemned the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize same-sex marriage.
The former president compares the South Carolina senator to a movie character… and not in a good way.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
The Atlantic has published I’m Not Yet Ready to Abandon the Possibility of America, an updated excerpt from President Barack Obama’s memoir—A Promised Land—that ought to be read in its entirety.
I distinctly remember my mother reading to me author Robert Coles’ The Story of Ruby Bridges, a classic about a 6-year-old girl’s work to integrate a New Orleans school in 1960. The story shows the hateful stares and anger-induced racial slurs Ruby faced on her walk to William Frantz Elementary School, and I’ll never forget wondering how so much contempt could be directed toward someone so young and innocent.
The good news is that we at least have a president-elect now (it’s Joe Biden, in case you haven’t heard).
The bad news is that pretty much everything else still sucks.
Take, for instance, the pandemic.
Which is raging harder than ever, thanks to the fact that Donald Trump would rather tweet election lies and hold superspreader events and, well, do pretty much anything else other than take meaningful steps to combat the coronavirus.
