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For anyone who is counting, 69 is the magic number of days we will be living with Donald Trump
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This week in the United States, we are taking a big, cautious exhale as a majority of American voters affirm that they are ready to turn their backs on Trumpism.
Featured essay
Ella Hillström, “Who Is Disfigured by a Cleft Lip? When happiness hinges on having a `normal’ face, the many possibilities for human life are narrowed.” (November 10, 2020)
Annals of Democracy
Claire Potter, “Why Polls Can’t Satisfy Us: What we want from this troubled industry may be impossible—the ability to know our political future.” (November 12, 2020)
Valerio Alfonso Bruno and Parsi Vittorio Emanuele, “Europe Reacts to the 2020 US Presidential Election: The resilience of American democracy gives us reason to hope.” (November 12, 2020)
Elzbieta Matynia, “A Halloween Uprising and Poland’s General Strike Over Abortion: A new generation of women rises up against an unholy – and sexist – alliance of church and state.” (November 6, 2020)
Slawomir Sierakowski, “Will Women Defeat Poland’s Illiberal Regime? Protests erupt in Poland over abortion restrictions.” (November 11, 2020)
Economics
Prabir Purkayastha, “Why Google Is Facing Serious Accusations of Monopoly Practices: The tech monopolies are increasingly being acknowledged as a danger to people, other companies, and even to democracy.” (November 10, 2020)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Black Lives Matter Gave Joe Biden His Victory: It is the foundation of a truly new electorate.” (November 9, 2090)
Heather Cox Richardson, “After the Election, New Leadership and Old Cronyism: Joe Biden steps up as the Trump administration manufactures lies in an attempt to hold on — and perhaps profit.” (November 11, 2020)
And a final comment on this week’s news from our political cartoonist, Josh Brown:
