Sandra Barrett

A message for experienced civil servants working in federal agencies Wallace Stegner and Terry Tempest Williams. Their sense of place — and her expressed gratitude — helped build trust between career and political staffs at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Digital campaigns are no longer what they used to be — it’s time for politicians to adapt. Before this pandemic, politicians substituting speeches on packed convention floors with Twitch streams would’ve seemed most-implausible; and yet, as is AOC’s habit with breaking the mold, she organized a stream with some of gaming’s most-coveted fixtures — as expected and given the young congresswoman’s notoriety among the younger electorate, the stream was a massive hit.

The rural/urban divide in the United States is fundamentally about who counts as a “real” American. The COVID era has brought us numerous shocks. There’s the unfortunate fact that we’ve never really come down from the first wave; there’s the fact that the president deliberately downplayed just how bad it was, all because he allegedly didn’t want to panic the populace; there’s the fact that we are now perilously close to seeing 100K cases a day. Winter, indeed, is coming.