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During high school, I [Clarissa] often worked the Valentine’s Day shift at my town’s grocery store. Assigned to the quick checkout register, I rung up purchases for a steady stream of men, their arms overflowing with roses, stuffed animals, and champagne. Every once and awhile, a bashful gentleman would slide a gigantic red heart of chocolates onto the conveyor belt—no doubt “I hope she forgives me” chocolate—to make up for another missed special day. I easily noticed that the flow of customers looked very different on Valentine’s—their purchases so extravagant, their intentio...

Watching in shock and dismay at the overrun of the Capitol on Wednesday, instigated by the president of the United States, emotions ran the range from heartbreak and fury, all the way to … delight. The melee was cleared by police, though the damage was done and at least one and as many as four lives lost. It was not hard to reimagine the scene and the death count had the mob not been mostly white. There’s no shortage of commentary with politicians finding some backbone instead of chasing the wind. Politicians and pundits insisted, “This is not America.” But this is America.

This year was painful. That doesn’t mean we should forget it.

Round numbers tend to be big in bad ways, and 2020 met every expectation. Looking back, it’s hard to recall a year more fraught with gut-churning distress. Mix a global pandemic killing close to 2 million with racial upheaval, a bizarro US presidential election season, and economic turbulence. Pour in never-ending conflicts in places like Afghanistan and Yemen. Stir and warm over a planet heating up year after year, and you have the makings for a grim apocalyptic stew. No wonder many have wondered whether the end is nigh. The prophets predicted pestilence and plague, hubristic leaders, wars...

Internal conventional wisdom about who's to blame for the shutdown, he's not going to win that. rob: he once $5 billion for the wall the democrats refuse to even negotiate. jillian: a fox news alert, the war on cops escalating overnight. four law enforcement officers in two states shot in the line of duty. in texas the search is on for a suspect after 3 deputies are hurt serving a search warrant, another suspect shot dead and the third in custody. all of the officers are expected to survive. in north carolina three people are under arrest after a state trooper is shot in the face, daniel harre...