Video: Joe Biden and Elizabeth Alexander discuss “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden
President-elect Joe Biden, poet Elizabeth Alexander, psychologist Angela Duckworth, and a chorus of working fathers and sons join Poetry in America host Elisa New to reflect on Robert Hayden’s sonnet “Those Winter Sundays.”
Paul Christensen: The Bluest Sky
He knew the rotting nature of poverty and the dull, disintegrating poison of lost hope. He had some of the dark anger of Walt Whitman, who could charm a winter tree back into bloom with his dreams and turn on his heels and find despair tearing at the entrails of the ordinary man.
Tom Weis: History Will Damn Trump & Co. for Betraying the Vision of Our Founders
Healing begins with putting Trump’s exhausting psychodrama behind us and getting back to loving and caring for one another as Americans.
Heather Cox Richardson: A National Disgrace
The first presidential debate of 2020 was unlike anything we have seen before. CNN’s Jake Tapper said: “That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck.” … Continue reading
Breanna Draxler: The Power of Inclusive Intergenerational Climate Activism
The energy and intersectionality of youth along with the experience and engagement of elders are putting climate issues at the forefront of the 2020 elections.
Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, et al.: Dump Trump, Then Battle Biden
Ending the Trump presidency is, by far, the most important goal that can be achieved between now and January
Jessica Corbett: After 175 Years, Scientific American Backs Biden With Magazine’s First-Ever Endorsement
With unprecedented wildfires burning across western states, the Gulf Coast bracing for a hurricane, and the coronavirus pandemic still raging, Scientific American on Tuesday gave Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden its first-ever endorsement in the magazine’s 175-year history.
Patricia A. Nugent: A Yawn is Better than a Gasp
I’m sending money, canvassing, registering voters, and voting for Joe.
George T. Conway, III et al: We’ve never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated.
We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.
John Feffer: The President as Political Hit Man
Donald Trump attempts to take out his electoral adversaries one by one, Mafia-style.
Video: Liberal Redneck | Super Tuesday Smorgasboard
Us liberals got a choice to make, y’all. Then the real fun starts.
Steven Pressman: Democratic plans for raising taxes on the rich|A guide for the middle class
It’s hardly surprising that if a Democrat wins the White House, taxes on wealthy Americans and corporations will probably go up. How they’ll go up is the more interesting question.
Michael Simms: The Democratic Field Narrows to Three Candidates
Although the Iowa Caucus was an epic fail, it did make a few things clear.
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield: What the White Debate Stage Says About Racial Equity
Sanders and Warren are the only remaining candidates who’ve introduced policies aimed at addressing racial inequity, but many folks of color are skeptical of their commitment to those policies.
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