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Change the South You Change the Country, and the South Is Changing

Adam Harris The Atlantic
Jaime Harrison, Democratic candidate for US Senate, greets supporters after a drive-in rally in Anderson, South Carolina. Jaime Harrison lost in his bid to unseat reactionary South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. But his race, like the 2018 campaigns of Stacey Abrams in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida, shows what soon may be politically possible in the Deep South.

The Election That Could Break America

Barton Gellman The Atlantic
If the vote is close, Donald Trump could easily throw the election into chaos and subvert the result. Who will stop him? Let us not hedge about one thing. Donald Trump may win or lose, but he will never concede.

The Other Swing Voter

Ibram X. Kendi The Atlantic
No one’s paying much attention to one chunk of the electorate that could prove decisive in 2020. To recognize the other swing voter is to decenter the white moderate in the body politic—where she and especially he has been positioned.
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