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Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now-habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
This was the twelfth 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
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold.”
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
On Monday, August 10, Todd Blanche took the oath of office as attorney general, administered by federal appeals court judge Emil Bove, another of Trump’s defense lawyers before moving to the Department of Justice, where he was Blanche’s top deputy.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Today the Trump administration asked the United States Supreme Court to let it build Trump’s ballroom where the East Wing of the White House used to be.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Today Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to put Trump’s name back on the Kennedy Center, this time in letters saying the building was “Restored and Renovated by President Donald J.
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
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
In Minnesota yesterday, close Trump ally Mike Lindell, the former chief executive officer of MyPillow, lost the Republican primary for governor to Republican state house speaker Lisa Demuth.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Days off have been thin on the ground in 2026 as the news comes at us like a firehose.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Remember when Mondays in August were lazy, quiet summer days?
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
On August 9, 1974, Richard M.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
This was the eleventh 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
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
At 4:00 this morning, just before they left for a five-week recess, Senate Republicans confirmed Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to the position of Attorney General of the United States.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
On Tuesday, August 4, Erin Banco, Mike Stone, and Jonathan Landay of Reuters reported that the U.S.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Sixty-one years ago, on August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B.
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American
• Heather Cox Richardson
