Letters from an American
In honor of Sunday, the summer solstice, and Father’s Day, we took the day off and did a ten-mile kayak trip along the coast. I did not look at the news, or my email, or my messages, or Twitter, or anything. I don’t remember the last time I did that. Maybe 2014?
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Yesterday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, made good on his threat to defund the legislature after Democrats walked out on May 30 in order to…
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I took this photo a year ago today, when Trump was still president, the pandemic was still new, and I was just becoming acclimated to isolation. It see…
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Early in the morning on this date in 1972, Frank Wills, a 24-year-old security guard at the Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C., noticed that…
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The big story today is the meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva, Switzerland. The event was carefully cho…
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This morning, the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released a series of emails and documents that show just how hard former president Trump w…
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Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told radio personality Hugh Hewitt that it is “highly unlikely” that he would permit President Bid…
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President Joe Biden is currently in England, participating in a meeting of the G7, an informal group of wealthy democracies including Canada, France, G…
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