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
I want to share a call to arms: “Less despair. More repair.” So says Austin Kleon, a local artist and writer here in Austin, Texas. His most recent book Keep Going [https://austinkleon.com/keepgoing/] wants readers to persist in their creative pursuits. I’m borrowing this call for resolve
By now, you’ve heard discussion of the latest book about the Trump presidency [https://www.npr.org/2020/01/17/797457501/the-authors-of-a-very-stable-genius-on-their-book-about-the-trump-white-house?] . You’ve undoubtedly heard one of its key phrases, “dangerously uninformed.” But is any of this news? We have long documented just how comfortably uninformed the American
It’s that time of year again. It might be unique to election years. Let’s all join hands or shake our fists or whatever it is you do when we join together to call for better civics. Our country is falling apart, y’all. If only there were an