The picture of the horrific mob that attacked the United States Capitol – encouraged by the President of the United States – will be the indelible after image of his presidency. There is irony in mob violence the same week in which the Democrats won the Senate and Georgia elected […] Read more »
‘This is not who we are’: Actually, the Capitol riot was quintessentially American
… There’s no disputing that the assault was remarkable. But “un-American” is the wrong adjective. A better way to make sense of the news of the past few days — not only the violent occupation in Washington but also the historic Senate victories by Democrats in Georgia — is as […] Read more »
100% Hart: A Summary of 2020 Polling
100% of family caregivers for an aging or disabled family member are worried about their family’s health due to COVID-19. 99% of voters said they’d seen, heard, or read about the spread of the coronavirus in March, when there were more than 3,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States. […] Read more »
Trump’s Fraud Claims Died in Court, But the Myth of Stolen Elections Lives On
President Trump’s baseless and desperate claims of a stolen election over the last seven weeks — the most aggressive promotion of “voter fraud” in American history — failed to get any traction in courts across seven states, or come anywhere close to reversing the loss he suffered to Joseph R. […] Read more »
Lessons from 2020 (that I can’t yet prove)
The year 2020 threw a lot at us. While (hopefully) the year will remain a fairly unique one in our history, surely there are some useful political lessons we can draw from it. So what follows is an incomplete list of lessons we’ve learned that I’m pretty sure are true […] Read more »
At my age, it’s time to fight everyday ageism — especially when I’m guilty of it
… Earlier this year, the University of Michigan in conjunction with AARP reported the findings of its National Poll on Healthy Aging, which described how those of us ages 50 to 80 (for the record, I am 60-plus) are bombarded with negative and hostile stereotypes. These include dismissive quips about […] Read more »