While You Were Weekending
Yesterday was swearing-in day for the new United States Congress, and an eventful day it was!
Mauve Quarterly: Volume One!
December 2020: A Year in . . . what was that exactly? How’s America doing? Read how The Mauve Report got started, and how it really got going. Plus, the Best of Autumn. And what are we looking forward to for Winter? Maude reports.
A Journey Just Beginning
Five hundred children were brought to our border and began a new life, but not the ones their parents had planned.
Month Ten
Depending on where you live, it’s been about nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first caught up to the United States.
Thirteenth of March — Part Three
Louisville and America wait for a fresh, young Attorney General to deliver justice for Breonna Taylor.
The work starts here
One question of what comes next for America has been answered. Based on the late progression of close-call vote counts in Pennsylvania, Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia, it was officially projected yesterday that the 46th President of the United States will take office in January.
The cost of success
Jared Kushner, the nation’s First Son-in-law and Senior Advisor to the President, made waves yesterday with a comment about Americans’ sense of success. On today’s “Marketplace Morning Report”, David Brancaccio spoke to Fenaba Addo, a consumer science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, about the current state of student debt economics, and who’s shouldering the load in pursuit of the American dream.
Sound Off
Twelve days before Election Day, tonight is the “final” Presidential debate of 2020, though many would argue that there hasn’t been one yet. After the first debate between the Presidential candidates melted down into a puddle of insults, interruptions, low blows, and deflections (maybe you’d prefer to read it) . . .
Policing in America – A Beginning
A brief relationship history of America’s Thin Blue Line and America’s Black population, from post-Civil War beginnings to modern day protests.
Who is responsible?
After a young gunman traveled across Texas this month to open fire on an El Paso Walmart, killing twenty-two and aiming specifically for Mexicans, Hispanics, and immigrants, Latino and Hispanic Americans are trying to grip shaken visions of their lives in this country. An article from USA Today captures their reactions.