Politics

How to Fight Back the Doom in the Age of Kavanaugh

HOPE

To live in a time such as this, it is worth remembering that there have been worse and blacker times, and there were those, even then, who fought on in the bilious dark.

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In the era of Trump, it’s often tempting to give in to despair. The news seems full of indignities, old ones you didn’t bother to learn about when they first surfaced, exacerbations of the worst instincts of the American polity, and entirely new iterations of human pain.

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