The leading third-party candidate for president—an environmental lawyer and activist, a son and nephew of legendary liberal Democratic politicians—just quit the race and announced that he is joining the campaign of the most anti-environment president and presidential nominee in recent history, the leader of a Republican Party he has turned into a right-wing, anti-democratic, protofascist personality cult. I could go on and on and on, cataloging the contradictions and abandonment of principle...

If you missed the news, Russians are interfering in American politics again. If you missed history, Russians are always interfering in other countries' politics—and so is everybody else, including the U.S. Screwing around with foreign elections is a popular sport for the world's regimes, though it's not clear that websites, bogus social media accounts, and funds funneled to a political-commentary network will return more bang for Putin's rubles than did past social media shenanigans.

our years after the murder of George Floyd, the site where he died looks like a shrine. Cup Foods, where Floyd bought cigarettes with a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill, leading to his arrest by Minneapolis police, is under new management and has been renamed Unity Foods. The curbside in front of the store, where Officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on Floyd’s neck, is filled with planter boxes sprouting wildflowers. The torched gas station across the street has become an open-air community meeting...

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