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Biden, Trump campaigns release staff diversity data

Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia, noted the difference between the Trump and Biden campaign’s ethnic diversity in their senior staff. “It might not seem like a huge deal, but the disparity between a quarter and more than a third of people of color, especially in this environment, matters a lot,” she said.
Jennifer Lawless
Richmond Times-Dispatch

Richard Schragger column: Pandemics and our faulty federalism

The U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been at best fragmented and incomplete. At worst, it is incompetent and disastrous. Critics say the fault lies largely in the lack of a unified competent national response to the crisis, though some are thankful that states and cities have some independent authority, for at least it means that governors and mayors can act when the federal government fails to do so.
Richard C. Schragger
JFK35 Podcast

Eleanor Roosevelt and JFK

When President Kennedy became his party’s nominee in 1960, Eleanor Roosevelt would eventually endorse him from her role as the leading member of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. However, he wasn’t her first or even second choice. We talk with historian Barbara Perry, who’s working on a book about the political pair, and how Kennedy was able to get the New Dealer’s seal of approval.
Barbara Perry
Washington Post

With ‘kung flu,’ Trump sparks backlash over racist language — and a rallying cry for supporters

“The fact that he got the crowd so riled up was just chilling,” said Chris Lu, a Chinese American who served as cabinet secretary in the Obama White House. “In that really primal desire to get a rise out of the crowd and get that affirmation he wants, he went to this place that has such bad consequences for Asian Americans broadly and for Asian American kids in particular. It’s a joke to him but not to us.”
Chris Lu