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Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
This was the ninth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
It turns out Trump has not abandoned his plan to paint the massive grey granite Eisenhower Executive Office Building white.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Tony Romm and Brad Plumer of the New York Times reported this afternoon that the Trump administration’s claim last October that it was cutting programs in order to protect taxpayers against waste was, in fact, a lie.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
I have been thinking lately about taxes and war and citizens and what the government should do for its people.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
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Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
“The Republican Party’s new favorite talking point is calling Democrats communists,” Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) said yesterday on the floor of the U.S.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
The front page of yesterday’s New York Times featured some of the 440,000 Americans from Arizona alone who have lost Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits since the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act made the deepest cuts to SNAP in its history, expanded work rules, and shifted costs to the states even as cuts to federal grant programs have forced Arizona to lay off a third of its caseworkers.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Brian Tyler Cohen
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
On Friday an Iranian attack on a U.S.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Spent a lovely day with family and friends, and the fact the internet was down when I got home just confirmed I should take the night off.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
This was the eighth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
On July 18, 1863, at dusk, the Black soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry of the U.S.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Yesterday President Donald J.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
An exchange yesterday between Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jay Clayton, Trump’s nominee to oversee the U.S.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Exactly five years ago, on July 15, 2021, I wrote:
