Goodbye, Donald.
But the question remains: How much is the GOP willing to sacrifice to an outgoing President's ego? Plus Maradona, Hobbes, and World AIDS Day
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Farewell to Trump
Claire Potter, “Yes, Democracy Can Survive Trump: When conservative officeholders and judges had to choose between party and country, some chose our country.” (December 3, 2020)
Sidney Tarrow, “How to Head Off the Coming Neo-Trumpian Movement: Focus on defending democracy, not trying to appeal to racist and sexist Republican voters.” (December 3, 2020)
Musa al Gharbi, “Democrats Seem to Have a Religion Problem: 2020 confirms a trend of religious voters moving away from the Democrats, with a few notable exceptions.” (December 2, 2020)
Classics Reconsidered
David Williams, “What Hobbes Can Teach Us About Trump’s Lawless Reign: Or, how the rich are really different from the rest of us.” (December 1, 2020)
Commemorations
Mitch Abidor, “Mourning Maradona: Football, populism and Argentina’s civic religion.” (December 3, 2020)
Eileen Markey, “The Models We Need: Forty years ago this week, four U.S. women were killed in El Salvador. It’s taken this long to understand the meaning of their deaths — and their lives.” (December 3, 2020)
Food
Pat Garofolo, “How Taxpayers are Picking Up the Bill for the Destruction of Local Restaurants: Ghost Kitchens are a trend that are as spooky and scary as they sound.” (November 30, 2020)
Books
Dan Royles, Black Men and AIDS, “The AIDS Capital of the World: As a pandemic escalated in 1984, one South Florida town predicted the calamity AIDS would become. (December 1, 2020)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Joe Biden’s Masculinity Is Anything But Toxic: How republican virtue is part of manliness.” (December 3, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, “None Dare Call It Treason: Is calling for a military coup Michael Flynn’s payback for his pardon?” (December 3, 2020)