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October 2019 feels like a lifetime ago. Covid-19 didn’t exist yet. Donald Trump was president. George Floyd was alive. And on a sunny, brisk fall day in Queens, New York, in a baseball field under a bridge across the street from the country’s biggest public housing project (Queensbridge, which birthed …

In one of her first speeches as a member of Congress, Rep. Cori Bush (D-Missouri) called for impeachment of the “white supremacist in chief” and was roundly booed by Republicans in the chamber. A longtime racial-justice activist-turned-politician who was elected to Congress in November, Bush made the most of her …