What Do TikTok, Trump, and Notre Dame Have in Common?
They're all in Public Seminar this week, that's what

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This weekโs issue:
Politics
Timothy Kuhnerย andย Benjamin Page, โWhy Trump Could Win Again: Democrats must respond to rising inequality and the working class.โ (September 17, 2020)
Heather Cox Richardson, โAlternative Factsโ Produce Real Disasters: As Trump officials hide the truth to support the bossโs re-election campaign, Americans become more ill-informed โ and vulnerable โ than ever.โ (September 13, 2020)
David Lieberman, โIs the TikTok Deal Another Level of Trumpian Corruption?Threatening Chinaโs ByteDance may have forced a deal that benefits a campaign donor.โ (September 15, 2020)
Plague
Edwin Michaelย andย Eileen Hunt Botting, โCOVID-19 Mirror on the WallโWhoโs the Bravest College of Them All? Moving online and volunteering for vaccine trials this Fall requires a more prudent courage than reopening college campuses for classes and football.โ (September 16, 2020)
Democracy
Philip Manow, โDonald Trump: Democracyโs Mirror image? Modern liberal democracies can always cancel themselves.โ (September 15, 2020)
Roxane Toma, โWhat Americans Can Learn from the Lebanese: Inspiration amid the ruins of Beirut.โ (September 14, 2020)
Post Office
Ryan Yursha, โThe United States Post Office is in Trouble: The strange fate of the United States Postal Service.โ (September 16, 2020)
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