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Overnight, as I wrote at the time, Seattle became a laboratory of America’s immediate future—a test case for the way that the rest of the country would live for the next year and beyond. Handshakes, indoor dining, and multi-person elevator rides disappeared in Seattle before anywhere else; boarded-up windows, empty store shelves, and business districts turned to ghost towns made their earliest débuts. In those first days, so little was known about the virus that officials scrambled to draft a playbook, Jeffrey Duchin, the health officer for Public Health–Seattle & King Count...

In a short video titled #TrumpsNewArmy, author Don Winslow warned of the danger Donald Trump and his supporters pose in the years after he leaves the White House, Red State reported. “In the ...

Save this story for later. Joe Biden’s Inauguration, just days away, takes place at a moment of upheaval, violence, and profound division. Even as the nation continues to absorb an unprecedented attack on our democracy, we look to a new Administration to propose a different course. Sign up for Classics, a twice-weekly newsletter featuring notable pieces from the past. This week, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces on Presidential Inaugurations and Inaugural Addresses. In “Ask Not, Tell Not,” Louis Menand writes about the story behind John F. Kennedy’s influential and inspiring ...

The 2020 Elections in the United States: A Socialist View From Afar While votes were being counted after the November 2020 U.S. elections, despots from around the world—in Iran, Russia, China, Venezuela, and Brazil—crowed over the delay in announcing results. [1] It is easy for rulers in countries where opposition leaders are disqualified, killed, or hounded into exile to mock the time taken to count votes meticulously. However, many of us watching with envy from afar—“envy” because the persecution of minorities, crushing of dissent, domination of the media, and destruction of democ...