Your Mid-Week Experiment
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Here’s a cool way to understand U.S. history. (Catherine Baab-Muguira) h/t Elise Hu via her indispensable (and free) newsletter
You will not finish this article with a cynical heart. (Monica Hesse)
You will not finish this article with a full heart, but you might have clearer eyes. I find it hard to disagree with Hillary Clinton here, but I’m unsettled that she said it at all. (The New York Times)
Even some Trump voters are volunteering that they’re a little worried that Donald Trump might ignore the 22nd Amendment and create a dictatorship. My word. (The Atlantic)
Have you ever seen the shirtless Abe Lincoln in the Los Angeles courthouse? (Comic Sands)
Ate. This. Up. Thanks to Hoa and Kingtrix for giving me Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President about the murder of President James Garfield.
I’m a sucker for a good commencement address. (Jim VandeHei)
This is another terrific commencement address.
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