Don’t let Trump distract. I have a long essay in the coming print magazine on how plagues change societies, after all. Instead of merely diagnosing the problem of illiberalism, I want to try to be part of the solution.I’ll still probably piss you off, on a regular basis. It was as simple and humanizing as the current web is so fraught and dehumanizing. Politicians How to WinHis distinctive political model has elements of Trumpism — but Trump is too dysfunctional to replicate it. I was among the first to recognize this potential for individual freedom of speech, and helped pioneer individual online media, specifically blogging, 20 years ago.Since I closed down the Dish, my bloggy website, five years ago, after 15 years of daily blogging, I have not missed the insane work hours that all but broke my health.
I also saw him as a radical conservative, of sorts.Andrew Sullivan: With Trump, the Pathology Is the PointYou can’t have both tribalism and a robust public-health response.Rediscovering an inspiring and profoundly human perspective on a plague that makes our own circumstances seem mild.A photo of Adele started a global conversation this week — and showed how crucial it is to grapple with difference both empirically and humanely.Andrew Sullivan: By Biden’s Own Standards, He Is Guilty As ChargedThe many red flags and question marks in Tara Reade’s allegation would be largely irrelevant under the campus rules Biden helped institute.Andrew Sullivan: We Can’t Go on Like This Much LongerThe psychological damage from the deeply unnatural way of life under coronavirus lockdown is only going to intensify.Andrew Sullivan: The Coronavirus Doesn’t Have a Social MessageThere is a pathogen trying to replicate itself in our bodies. The count could be higher because the report did not include complete data from Texas and parts of New York State outside of New York City.Missouri, Oklahoma, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho and Montana were among the states with the highest percentage increase of child infections during that period, according to the report.Trump has solicited advice on the virus from a medley of voices, with anyone gaining access to him able to bend his ear about possible treatments. But I’ll also be directly accountable, and open to arguments that I, too, don’t want to hear but need to engage. We have freedom of association in this country, and if the mainstream media want to cut ties with even moderate anti-Trump conservatives, because they won’t bend the knee to critical theory’s version of reality, that’s their prerogative. Chan School of Public Health,] wonders if the “I think if children were dying, this would be … a different situation, quite honestly,” she said.The Trump campaign is betting that voters will be swayed by someone coming to their door during a pandemicPresident Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee (RNC) are undertaking an aggressive ground strategy by sending mask-wearing field staffers to knock on doors to counter Democrat Joe Biden’s onslaught of over-the-air advertisements.Trump’s campaign has been plowing its money into field staff and ramping up in-person voter contacts. So, where do you think it’s located? Some demonstrators tried to scale the blast walls outside Parliament Square. The Weekly Dish will be hosted by Substack, a fantastic company that hosts an increasingly impressive number of individual free thinkers, ... Andrew Sullivan: See You Next Friday.
"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox. It’s an embarrassment to our government and our people,” said Pedro Pierluisi, who is running against Gov. Which is why the The initial basic formula — which, as with all things Dish, will no doubt evolve — is the following: this three-part column, with perhaps a couple of added short posts or features (I probably won’t be able to resist); a serious dissent section, where I can air real disagreement with my column, and engage with it constructively and civilly; a podcast, which I’ve long wanted to do, but never found a way to fit in; and yes, reader window views again, and the return of The View From Your Window contest. But if you want to subscribe right away, or be a founding Weekly Dishhead, we’d love it, and it would help us enormously in getting this off the ground.A concerning development at Trump’s coronavirus press conferenceAn internal investigation by Facebook has uncovered thousands of groups and pages, with millions of members and followers, that support the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to internal company documents reviewed by NBC News.The investigation’s preliminary results, which were provided to NBC News by a Facebook employee, shed new light on the scope of activity and content from the QAnon community on Facebook, a scale previously undisclosed by Facebook and unreported by the news media, because most of the groups are private.
Liberty University was founded by Falwell’s father, and the younger Falwell became head after his death. Despite the pandemic, field staffers knocked on 1 million doors across 23 states last week.Biden’s team and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are taking a radically different approach.Biden, who will accept his party’s nomination from Delaware and not travel to Milwaukee for the nominating convention, has made the careful handling of the coronavirus the centerpiece of his campaign.The Biden campaign recently announced the largest ad reservation in history, a $280 million television and digital investment that nearly doubles the Trump campaign’s current reservations.Biden’s staffers are not knocking on doors, believing it’s unsafe and a turnoff for voters during the pandemic.