Joe Biden is inaugurated hours after his predecessor leaves the White House, clearing the way for a beleaguered nation to turn the page on one of the most divisive chapters in its political history.
The attack on the Capitol has so many root causes, and we have to understand them before addressing them. What do you think is the most important cause?
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Héctor Tobar: We have to start with income inequality. Los Angeles has this reputation as becoming the Bombay of the United States rampant inequality, homeless camps. It takes a toll on the psyche. We’ve seen this disinvestment in the American middle class and at the same time a lack of theories and ideologies of why this is happening. I just recently traveled across the country and talked to all different kinds of Latino people who are searching for answers, and they grab on to what’s available to them. They‘re looking for stories that explain why life is a struggle.
We asked writers from left, right and center to offer creative ideas for the next president not necessarily the obvious policy measures at the forefront of political discussion. Plus: 7 artists illustrate their own proposals.
#BTColumn – Truth Decay
Article by January 12, 2021
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Ralph Jemmott
President Barrack Obama recently used the words ‘Truth Decay’ to describe the last four years of Donald Trump’s Presidency.
It was sly a play on the dental condition of ‘tooth decay.’ Perhaps the most lasting effect of Trump’s four year occupancy of the American Presidency is the extent to which it has become difficult to determine what is ‘truth’ and what is ‘falsehood.’
Trump’s persistent and on-going claims that anything said against him is false or fake-news seems to have shaken the
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For the past 8 years, I’ve written a New Year’s column listing reasons for optimism (click here to see how I did last year) This year I do the same. It remains the nature of news and opinion writing that positive developments get short shrift.
As 2021 is about to begin, 5 reasons for optimism are outlined below:
- The end of the Trump Presidency provides an opportunity to heal our nation’s divisions, shore up our democracy and solve the big challenges ahead. While our polarized, poisonous and dysfunctional national politics did not begin with President Trump, he made nearly everything worse, flooding the media in the apt words of Jonathan Rauch with a ‘firehose of falsehood” and working overtime to exploit our racial and cultural divisions for political gain. It is not an aberration, but completely in character that Mr. Trump is ending his presidency with a futile, falsehood-ridden, and dangerous attempt to overturn the