Killed in the 9 11 terror attacks. This week the daily reported death toll from covid in america was almost as high. On multiple days. Vaccines are coming soon, but so is the dark and tragic winter. How can we reverse the terrible trends the u. S. Is seeing, and can we do it before christmas . Harvards Michael Meena has a plan. Finally, the president and his allies continue to spread lies about widespread election fraud. At the highest level, it was a rigged election. Think its all innocuous . Think again. One great political lie helped bring about the downfall of german democracy in the 1930s. The great historian Margaret Mcmillian will explain. First, heres my take. Its much too soon to be thinking about a posttrump america. Donald trump remains the most popular figure among republicans and he will continue to play a huge role in american politics in the years to come. But it is not too soon to begin thinking about a posttrump democracy. An american political system that learns from
Morning to hear this anticipated but still sad and shocking news. Absolutely right, brian. Anticipated. Expected. Predictable but painful nonetheless. As i look around, the crowds here have grown to maybe 400 or 500 people. Mainly South Africans who were born after the birth of democracy. The socalled born frees who have no memory of the darkest years of ar par tide. They are singing and celebrating his life rather than mourning his death because, of course, his death was not in any way surprising coming almost six months to the day since he was admitted to hospital with very serious respiratory illness. People here celebrating his life, life of the man perhaps the world respects and reveres. Nelson mandela said, himself, im not a saint but a sinner who keeps on trying. Nevertheless, there is perhaps no one in this world who in the modern age has been more revered and more respected and because of that, what he gave South Africans, because of the free nation that was born under his pre