Counting

As the nation, and the world, holds its breath dedicated civil servants and volunteers ensure a fair election

It’s not easy for a small organization like ours to respond to the most important election in our lifetimes in two days, but we did it — with a little help from our friends. As you are waiting for the ballots to be counted, here are the issues as we see them.

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Race Matters

• Kristopher Bryan Burrell, “When It Comes to Racial Justice, Why Is It Wrong to Demand the `Impossible’? Because when white comfort matters most, Black lives are not a priority.” (November 3, 2020)

• Andrew Wainer, “Why the U.S. Should Convene a 2021 Commission on Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation: Lessons from the 1871 congressional Ku Klux Klan hearings.” (November 2, 2020)

The Vote

• Timothy K. Kuhner, “Will Trump’s Coup Succeed? How to Steal an Election in Plain View.” (November 5, 2020)

• “We Will Be Lucky if Biden Actually Becomes the President-Elect: But this election is not over, and even the best case scenario is pretty dismal.” (November 4, 2020)

• Mitchell Abidor, “Confessions of a Poll Worker: When I volunteered to work on Election Day, my melting pot neighborhood taught me about the complexity of Trump’s America.” (November 5, 2020)

• Jo Freeman, “How to Suppress the Vote: One of the Constitution’s original provisions, delegating elections to the states, haunts us today.” (November 2, 2020)

Annals of Democracy 

• Sid Tarrow, “How Trump Has Politicized the Executive Branch: `Retail’ politicization of the state may be worse than `wholesale.’” (November 5, 2020)

Book Review

• Evangeline Riddiford Graham, “Poetry to Vote By: Reading Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic on the eve of the election.” (November 3, 2020)

Our columnists 

• Heather Cox Richardson, “Measuring the Health of Our Democracy: As Trump spins his conspiracist narrative, Biden prepares to assume the presidency and the GOP holds him at arm’s length.” (November 5, 2020)

• John Stoehr, “Biden Is Waiting, Trump Is Plotting and the Votes Are Still Being Counted: The `blue wave’ didn’t happen, but a messy, prolonged `blue shift’ probably will. (November 4, 2020)