Welcome to discourse.blog, a new...project (?) brought to you by the former staff of Splinter. What’s transpired in the last six months of politics—the sandbagging of Bernie Sanders, the perilous ascent of Joe Biden, the catastrophically inept (and potentially criminal) response to the coronavirus pandemic from Washington—has been painful (and annoying!) to watch without a proper venue to comment on what’s happened. So as we stared down what could be months of social isolation, we felt compelled to act on our basest instinct: to post. And now here we are, blogging once more into the ether.