OK, I’ll admit that even though it is my job to make sense of politics, to gather thoughts about our government and the problems it’s designed to solve, I have been avoiding the news as much as anyone else since last week.
With just days left until the polls close and we determine the winners of the 2024 Election, media coverage isn’t doing deep dives on the issues, the consequences, or the records of the two candidates at the top of the ticket.
In partnership with United for Democracy. For those of us who remember the time before the pandemic upended our lives (and our capacity for long-term memory), the first Trump term was a chaotic, unpredictable, unhinged mess.
Whether it’s in the heat of another contentious election year or the wake of a far-too-common mass shooting, Americans are likely to hear the term “common sense gun law” online, in the news, and from their elected officials.