Letters from an American

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One of the key things that drove the rise of the current Republican Party was the celebration of a certain model of an ideal man, patterned on the image…
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All day, I have been coming back to this: How have we arrived at a place where 90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet…
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Today, a gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. For years now, after one massacre or another, I…
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Scandals today, and be forewarned: the first deals with sexual assault. If you want to skip over it, the next one starts about nine paragraphs down…
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I am in Boston, trying to get my ducks in a row to finish a new book and to pick up threads abandoned when the pandemic hit, and I have gone a little…
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On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States. He…
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As the hearings on the events of January 6th and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election approach, the extent of the operation is becoming clearer…
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Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol sent a letter to Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA…
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Finland and Sweden have applied for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a defensive alliance originally formed in 1949 to…
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On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision, which declared the segregation of public…
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How has the federal government limited and protected free speech rights over the course of American history? How have citizens responded when Washington…
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre began her first press briefing today by noting its significance. “I just want to say a few words about…
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