Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee US Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) attends a coronavirus briefing at a makeshift studio at the Hotel DuPont on August 13,
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Tuesday’s DNC roll call was a quirky, unexpected delight
The Democratic National Convention Delaware’s pass, Rhode Island’s calamari, and other highlights from this year’s virtual DNC roll call. From delivering votes from the outer
Most Americans think social media companies are censoring people
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones helped push unfounded claims that social media companies suppress conservative content into the political mainstream. | Gary Miller/Getty Images Three-quarters of
The MyPillow Guy, explained by someone who read his memoir
Mike Lindell, the inventor of MyPillow, with President Donald Trump. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Trump friend Mike Lindell appeared on Anderson Cooper’s show
Jacquelyn Brittany’s viral elevator moment made her the star of a populist DNC fairy tale
Jacquelyn Brittany endorses former Vice President Joe Biden during the virtual Democratic National Convention on August 18, 2020. | DNCC Joe Biden capitalized on his
Use of the word “bitch” surged after women’s suffrage
Men looking at material posted in the window of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage Headquarters in New York City in 1911. | Harris
How the radical British suffragettes influenced America’s campaign for the women’s vote
Daisy Dugdale leading a suffragette demonstration in London on December 19, 1908. | Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images There are echoes of the British movement
Bill Clinton’s argument for defeating Trump: A new, fairer economy
Former US President Bill Clinton addresses the virtual 2020 Democratic National Convention on August 19, 2020. | David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images Clinton’s DNC speech
What MLK and Malcolm X would do today
Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images A conversation with historian Peniel Joseph. The best works of history are always the ones that illuminate the present
War and Peace — folks, it’s good
Have you read this one? It’s really long. | Courtesy of Penguin Random House Leo Tolstoy’s epic might be the best book ever written, and