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All signs suggest that this coming week, politics are going to be hopping. It's a good time to take a breath and rest up for what's on the horizon. I'l…
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For weeks now, I have vowed that I would finish these letters early and get to bed before midnight, and for weeks now, I have finally finished around t…
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On Monday, we learned that after last year’s election, John Eastman, a well-connected lawyer advising former president Donald Trump, outlined a six-poi…
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This evening, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas to four key figures in the Trump White Hous…
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CNN’s bombshell revelation of Trump loyalist lawyer John Eastman’s six-point memo of instructions for overturning the 2020 election—discussed in the ne…
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Tonight, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill that would both keep the government from shutting down and prevent a default on the U.S. de…
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On this episode of Now & Then, “New York, New York,” Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman discuss the 20th anniversary of September 11th, 2001 att…
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So many stories landed today that some will have to wait. Tonight’s news, though, boils down to Republican attempts to retake control of the government…
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Last Friday, Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie of U.S. Central Command admitted that the August 29 drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that the U.S. …
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Going to go for an early night tonight. I'll leave you with a picture I look from my kayak in yesterday morning's flat calm, and will catch you all tom…
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One hundred and fifty nine years ago this week, in 1862, 75,000 United States troops and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed along Antietam Creek ne…
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Disgraced retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn is endorsing candidates for office. Flynn advised former president Trump’s 2016 campaign and was Tru…
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