After the Midterms
Across the country, people are sitting with their bills on the kitchen table. And many parents are calculating how much of the grocery-shopping can be put off until maybe the next paycheck. Some immigrant families are wondering if it is safe to exhale. Some of our elders are With the teacher who needs us to care about the children in the classroom long after we have finished arguing about them on television. Democrats have won control of both the House and the Senate in the November 3 midterms, and that changes the possibilities for congressional oversight and the balance of power in Washington. I am very attentive to this. For those of us who have been longing for a meaningful check on this administration, this shift offers some reason for relief. I welcome that possibility. I also want to know what it will mean at the kitchen table and how long it will take for the kitchen table conversations to shift 'hopewards'. Because of all the intersectionalities in me, I cannot sepa...