Chicago Police Officer Eric E. Stillman chased a boy down an alleyway.It was the early morning of March 29. In Minnesota, opening statements in the Derek Chauvin trial were coming in a few hours. Stillman had responded to reports of gunshots in Little Village, a predominantly Latino community on Chicago’s West Side.“Stop right now!” the officer at Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Gary Elementary School. “Hands. Show me your hands. Drop it. Drop it.”A video taken by Stillman’s body camera shows Toledo apparently complying.He appears to drop something.He stops.He turns around.He...…Chicago Police Officer Eric E. Stillman chased a boy down an alleyway.It was the early morning of March 29. In Minnesota, opening statements in the Derek Chauvin trial were coming in a few hours. Stillman had responded to reports of gunshots in Little Village, a predominantly Latino community on Chicago’s West Side.“Stop right now!” the officer at Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old seventh grader at Gary Elementary School. “Hands. Show me your hands. Drop it. Drop it.”A video taken by Stillman’s body camera shows Toledo apparently complying.He appears to drop something.He stops.He turns around.He...WW…

A knelt. As a parent who had tragically lost a child, he wanted to get close to a child who had tragically lost a parent. Biden put his arm on her black chair. Six-year-old Gianna Floyd turned her head to the right. She with the presidential candidate.Gianna saw the empathetic body before her, but perhaps she also saw the millions of empathetic bodies protesting in the streets, turning her father into a global martyr for racial justice.“Daddy changed the world,” Gianna to Biden. “Daddy changed the world.”These words “burrowed deep into my heart,” Biden later , calling it “one of the most...…A knelt. As a parent who had tragically lost a child, he wanted to get close to a child who had tragically lost a parent. Biden put his arm on her black chair. Six-year-old Gianna Floyd turned her head to the right. She with the presidential candidate.Gianna saw the empathetic body before her, but perhaps she also saw the millions of empathetic bodies protesting in the streets, turning her father into a global martyr for racial justice.“Daddy changed the world,” Gianna to Biden. “Daddy changed the world.”These words “burrowed deep into my heart,” Biden later , calling it “one of the most...WW…

T were attracted to Donald Trump in 2016 have become alienated from President Trump in 2020. White women, seniors, and suburbanites are him in droves. The —who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 but did not vote in 2016—will likely be voting in , after many of them participated in the largest wave of anti-racist demonstrations in American history.Trump is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in in every swing state. Democrats appear to be within distance in the red states of Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. They could snag , dealing a heavy blow to the...…T were attracted to Donald Trump in 2016 have become alienated from President Trump in 2020. White women, seniors, and suburbanites are him in droves. The —who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 but did not vote in 2016—will likely be voting in , after many of them participated in the largest wave of anti-racist demonstrations in American history.Trump is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden in in every swing state. Democrats appear to be within distance in the red states of Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Mississippi, Georgia, and South Carolina. They could snag , dealing a heavy blow to the...WW…

The two major policy pitches of the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1972 were clear: an immediate end to the Vietnam War, and an immediate guarantee of a minimum income for all Americans. George McGovern ran for president that year, but the most progressive Democratic nominee in recent history did not get very far. He suffered the second-largest rout for a Democrat in American Electoral College history.Incumbent Richard Nixon won 49 states and 520 electoral votes, severely wounding the spirits of countless young progressives. And I don’t think some of them ever...…The two major policy pitches of the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 1972 were clear: an immediate end to the Vietnam War, and an immediate guarantee of a minimum income for all Americans. George McGovern ran for president that year, but the most progressive Democratic nominee in recent history did not get very far. He suffered the second-largest rout for a Democrat in American Electoral College history.Incumbent Richard Nixon won 49 states and 520 electoral votes, severely wounding the spirits of countless young progressives. And I don’t think some of them ever...WW…

H. He coveted his freedom. But for most of his political career, he turned away from talk of founding or fathering a new nation to secure his freedom.As a South Carolina legislator, Christopher Memminger took a more moderate approach to secession in the 1830s and ’40s than Senator John C. Calhoun, the ironclad attorney general of South Carolina slaveholders. But in the 1850s, Memminger changed. He likely feared the growing resistance and density of enslaved Africans. He feared poor southern whites “would soon raise the hue and cry against the Negro, and be hot abolitionists—and every one of...…H. He coveted his freedom. But for most of his political career, he turned away from talk of founding or fathering a new nation to secure his freedom.As a South Carolina legislator, Christopher Memminger took a more moderate approach to secession in the 1830s and ’40s than Senator John C. Calhoun, the ironclad attorney general of South Carolina slaveholders. But in the 1850s, Memminger changed. He likely feared the growing resistance and density of enslaved Africans. He feared poor southern whites “would soon raise the hue and cry against the Negro, and be hot abolitionists—and every one of...WW…