How we got here, where we are and what we're facing next.
On Wednesday, the United States bid farewell to Donald Trump — a president whose name appeared in almost 2,000 headlines on the front page of The New York Times while he was in office. By midday, Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president, and Kamala Harris as the first female, Black and Asian-American vice president. |
It's worth considering how we got here. As the editorial board member Michelle Cottle and the video journalist Alex Stockton point out, beating an incumbent who was willing to undermine democracy during a pandemic that upended the usual way of voting was no small feat. But winning the election is just the beginning for Biden. The columnist Ezra Klein lays out how a Biden presidency should unfold with a Democratic Congress (in one word: quickly). But as Adam Jentleson notes, Biden's agenda could prove impossible as long as the Senate filibuster exists. To prevent a return of Trumpism and truly make a difference, "Democrats need to reimagine their role," Ezra writes. "They cannot merely defend the political system. They must rebuild it." |
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Imagine America Is an Emotional Teenage Girl |
 | | Petra Börner |
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"What if we stopped seeing the unimaginable heights of teenage girls' emotions as anxiety or hysteria (a hateful word derived from 'hystera,' Greek for uterus) and instead likened these heights of feeling to space exploration, deep sea diving, scientific research into what makes us human?" Samantha Hunt asks. |
Biden's 100-Day To-Do List |
 | | Antonio Giovanni Pinna |
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"Day 8. Launch 'Real Joe Biden' Twitter account. Day 9. Tweet once. Forget how you logged in. Day 10. Make an elaborate egg sandwich. Send a pic to Barack." |
Photographs From the Quiet Inauguration |
"There was something ironically appropriate about the difference in decibels on Wednesday," Shawn McCreesh writes. "The solemnity felt antithetical to everything that preceded it." |
If You're Offered a Vaccine, Take It |
 | | JR Bee |
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 | | Tim Lahan |
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"I have my N95 mask. I have my bottle of hand sanitizer. I'm wearing a polyurethane laminate jacket over a fluid-resistant surgical gown," Jon Methven writes. "This jaunt is just what I need to unwind." |
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