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Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.

Using credentials your employer gave you to do something after you were fired wouldn’t meet most people’s definition of a “hacker.”

Biden signed 17 executive actions on Inauguration Day.

“When no one has our backs, we have to take care of each other.”

Should I send my son back to school?

She wants to take this act public.

There are the expected controversial choices, and then there’s the truly bizarre.

On the day he left my city, I got to see the view he had from the White House.

To sum up the social media response to Psaki’s performance, it was viewed widely as delightfully (p)sane.

The era of Scotch-taped ties and generally upsetting aesthetics is OVER.

Trump’s grotesque farewell speeches make it easier to appreciate Biden’s simple inaugural address.

Trump’s corrupt, unqualified cronies got the boot just after Biden took office.

The Capitol insurrection had no sequels in the states.

Which is why it worked.

Is space a territory to defend or a commons to share?

Returning to truth after four years of Trump.

Seeing so many masked faces at the inauguration was frankly soothing.

The most ruthless boundary-pusher in American politics finally discovered the limits of cynical, toxic partisanship.

I should know, I was one of them.

Even until the end, believers were holding out hope for martial law.

Richard Blanco, the first openly gay poet to perform at a presidential inauguration, also reads his poem “What We Know of Country.”

Was she right?

A return to some level of political stability is a national security issue.

Interviews with a former Republican, a new citizen, a first-time voter, and some Alpha Kappa Alphas.

And now he’s gone.