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April 17, 2021
A terribly frustrating writing day, where I churned out 3000 completely useless words. I'm going to bed in disgust, but my bad mood won't last long. It…
Heather Cox Richardson
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April 16, 2021
Today, news broke that a number of pro-Trump House Republicans, including Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Paul Go…
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Apr 17
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April 15, 2021
April 15 is a curiously fraught day in American history. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln breathed his last at 7:22 a.m., and Secretary of War Edwin …
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 16
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April 14, 2021
Today, President Joe Biden announced that by September the United States will withdraw the 2500 or so troops remaining in Afghanistan. We have been on …
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 15
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April 13, 2021
Today, the administration issued a proclamation on Black Maternal Health Week. It noted that Black American mothers die from pregnancy-related complica…
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 14
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April 12, 2021
Yesterday, at about 2:00 in the afternoon, a white police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man…
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 13
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April 11, 2021
Congress has been on break since March 29, and tomorrow members will go back to Washington, D.C., to resume work. The next weeks are going to be busy f…
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 12
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April 10, 2021
Sometimes it seems like we live in different time zones in this house: I write very late and Buddy gets up very early. On Thursday, Buddy captured the …
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 11
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April 9, 2021
The 1918 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million people across the world, including about 675,000 people in the United States. And yet, until rec…
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 10
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April 8, 2021
On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant was having a hard night. His army had been harrying Confederate General Robert E. Lee's for days, and Grant …
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 9
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April 7, 2021
Last night, commentator Kevin Williamson published a piece in National Review justifying voter suppression by suggesting that “the republic would be be…
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 8
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April 6, 2021
I spent much of today thinking about the Republican Party. Its roots lie in the immediate aftermath of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in spring…
Heather Cox Richardson
Apr 7
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