Posts published in “Issue 1: February 2020”

Just kidding. You can’t go all Nancy Pelosi on this article without damaging your computer, and you probably don’t want to do that. Computers are expensive. Seriously, though. Do you need a drink?

You probably need a drink.

Anything to take the edge off is helpful after the week we’ve had. From democracy-spiking apps to geographically-curious tweets, the past seven days have been so full of gaffes that the joke in this article’s headline will probably be two news cycles old before you read it. There were about 90 minutes on Tuesday night when it would have been great, though.

If you somehow managed to maintain your sanity, it probably won’t do you any good to recount what happened, but we’re going to do it anyway. …

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate held just the third ever vote on whether to convict and remove a sitting president on articles of impeachment. Such a moment should carry with it a type of palpable gravitas. After all, in the wide scope of human history, the ability to select one’s leaders is a relatively new idea. The ability, one might even argue the responsibility, to remove one’s leaders through nonviolent procedure if they are injurious to the office is an even more novel concept.

And yet, on Wednesday afternoon, as the Senate twice went through its roll call to acquit Donald John Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, I sat in the lobby of the Kaufman Management Center watching a potential inflection point in the American experiment on my iPad, and felt nothing.…

February 3rd, 2020, the kickoff of the Democratic Primary season at the Iowa Caucuses, will go down as a dark day in American politics. 

After months of anticipation, the first event at which delegates would be awarded for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President, technical glitches and poor planning left candidates, caucus-goers, and voters across the country confused about who actually won, with results trickling in over days rather than hours. The mishandling of such a pivotal moment must not be played down. As soon as reports were delayed, the integrity of the caucuses was compromised. Outbursts from the left and right side of the aisle, and all over twitter, speculated on hacks, corruption, or foreign intervention.…