Tom Sherlin/The Daily Times via AP Crews use buckets and lifts to restore efficient drainage in the Bote Mountain Tunnel in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park, January 2020. There is little disagreement that American infrastructure is in the worst shape in living memory, earning a C- on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2021 Infrastructure . That grade was actually a marginal improvement over the D+ ASCE posted in 2017. Yet it took 20 years just to get to “somewhat average” territory.Eleven out of the 17 categories ASCE studied earned Ds. Aviation, hazardous waste...…Tom Sherlin/The Daily Times via AP Crews use buckets and lifts to restore efficient drainage in the Bote Mountain Tunnel in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park, January 2020. There is little disagreement that American infrastructure is in the worst shape in living memory, earning a C- on the American Society of Civil Engineers’ 2021 Infrastructure . That grade was actually a marginal improvement over the D+ ASCE posted in 2017. Yet it took 20 years just to get to “somewhat average” territory.Eleven out of the 17 categories ASCE studied earned Ds. Aviation, hazardous waste...WW…

John Minchillo/AP Photo The National Mall before the storming of the U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. After seven long days of how-did-this-happen-here recriminations, Donald J. Trump entered the history books as the only president to be impeached twice, the worst president in American history, and the only one to incite an attempted coup. In the House of Representatives, boos rained down on Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, a victim of police abuse, sexual violence, and more, after she called for rooting out white supremacy starting with the white supremacist-in-chief. When...…John Minchillo/AP Photo The National Mall before the storming of the U.S. Capitol, January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. After seven long days of how-did-this-happen-here recriminations, Donald J. Trump entered the history books as the only president to be impeached twice, the worst president in American history, and the only one to incite an attempted coup. In the House of Representatives, boos rained down on Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, a victim of police abuse, sexual violence, and more, after she called for rooting out white supremacy starting with the white supremacist-in-chief. When...WW…

Paul Sancya/AP Photo A protester carries his rifle at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, April 30, 2020. In Jackson, Mississippi, one spring evening 50 years ago today, fed-up students threw rocks at drivers and set fire to a dump truck. Drivers often on Lynch Street through their Jackson State College campus throwing bottles and rocks, and yelling, “nigger.”The Jackson police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol on Lynch Street. Bottles and rocks flew after firefighters put the blaze out, and shortly after the midnight hour on May 15, 1970, the officers began firing hundreds of bullets...…Paul Sancya/AP Photo A protester carries his rifle at the State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan, April 30, 2020. In Jackson, Mississippi, one spring evening 50 years ago today, fed-up students threw rocks at drivers and set fire to a dump truck. Drivers often on Lynch Street through their Jackson State College campus throwing bottles and rocks, and yelling, “nigger.”The Jackson police and the Mississippi Highway Patrol on Lynch Street. Bottles and rocks flew after firefighters put the blaze out, and shortly after the midnight hour on May 15, 1970, the officers began firing hundreds of bullets...WW…