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The Wall Street Journal

Biden, Trump Teams Plan for Midcrisis Transition

“Right now, we’re thinking about: how do we take the policies and the priorities that we have said during the campaign and retool these for a different environment,” said Chris Lu, who was the executive director of former President Obama’s 2008 transition. He has advised Biden transition officials, but isn’t formally involved.
Chris Lu
Axios

China is censoring Hollywood's imagination

The result is an "epidemic of self-censorship" in Hollywood, said Aynne Kokas, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia, and author of the book Hollywood Made in China.
Aynne Kokas
Bloomberg

Trump’s Gender Gap Risks Becoming Chasm, Adding to Campaign Woes

But the argument that Trump will keep women and their families safer than Biden may fail to resonate because women recognize that Trump is the nation’s leader now, said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia. The efficacy of the president’s law-and-order messaging depends on “whether suburban women believe that Joe Biden will make things worse,” Lawless said. “The reality is if they think right now there’s unrest in the cities, Donald Trump is president right now.”
Jennifer Lawless
Eleanor Roosevelt talking to John F. Kennedy

Political Parties and Movements

How John F. Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt went from rivals to allies

Our country faces wide gulfs today along partisan, ideological, geographical and racial boundaries. Recent gaps between Republicans and Democrats on approval ratings for President Donald Trump expose the largest schism in polling history: nearly a 90% difference between partisan views of his presidency.
Dallas Morning News
Daily Beast

Trump Fanboys Gear Up to Smear Kamala Harris and Jill Biden

“There’s no sense of shock anymore,” said Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, who studies gender. “I think that the way that they’re being framed and the way they’re being used is as part of this broader narrative, which is, without Donald Trump in control, there will be chaos, all rules will be broken, and there will be no law and order.”
Jennifer Lawless