The Seven Most Important and Interesting Stories of the Day

The election of Joe Biden is in a way an affirmation that people still believe in the possibility that they might find some common ground with one another. The word empathy gets overused in politics, but it is a little bit like this gene that lies in our political culture and it's kind of gone dormant for a while. And what he's done in his campaign and just in his biography is to try to lift that back out and say, we're not as angry at each other as we might think we are.