Donald Trump was and is a lazy, ignorant narcissist. The Florida governor is a smart, motivated, very right-wing Catholic who wants to remake America as he imagines God wants it to be. Is this what the MAGA controlled GOP has come to?
Bill McKibben and Akaya Windwood
The New York Times
Ten thousand Americans turn 60 every day, and on average we’ll live another 23 years. We’ll vote in huge numbers, as we always do. One possibility is that we’ll help turn back the clock a little, toward the world we actually built in our youth.
The House report describes both a catastrophe and a way forward. For the first time in the history of the United States, Congress referred a former President to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
The American media needs to call this movement what it is, fascism, and demand accountability and answers from the thousands of Republican politicians nationwide who refuse to repudiate it.
Raphael Warnock’s impressive win in Georgia not only gives the Democrats crucial control of committees in the next session of Congress. 51-49 is far more powerful than 50-50—and provides some insurance for 2024.
Minnesotans voted to reelect the attorney general who prosecuted Derek Chauvin. The result holds important lessons for the Democratic Party on its approach to criminal justice.
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