Repeat the Question: What Do We Want After the Pandemic? Claiming this moment of lost certainties for new possibilities A history professor at Indiana University took to The Ideas pages of The Atlantic to consider a question that’s occupying minds across the country: Do we really want to just
My Fellow Citizens, We’re all asking one another, “how are you holding up?” The standard response usually starts with a deep breath and includes some bad joke. We’re looking for a new approach to our standard greetings. The usual ones don’t seem to do enough to recognize
This is a moment when we need everyone to get it. Dr. Sanjay Gupta told late-night host Stephen Colbert that he thought we were. People are starting to get this, Gupta said, “I have an obligation now, not just for my health, my family’s health, but for your health
Big announcements of Democratic candidates dropping out of the 2020 presidential race have shaped the news this week. While the media has talked for some time about a contest that quickly excluded candidates of color [https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/17/2020-diversity-black-candidates-086394] , Elizabeth Warren was the last woman
Reading List: What the Warmth of Other Suns Tells Us about the American Dream The Warmth of Other Suns is the story of the American Dream turned backwards or inside out. It’s a story that’s absolutely necessary to understand before we use that idea of the United States