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Letters From an American
  • Letters From an American
    Virtual Convention Day Two
    August 19, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Susan B. Anthony gets pardoned, the DNC stays on "we the people" message and the post office controversy rolls on.

  • Letters From an American
    The Virtual Convention
    August 18, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The DNC programming was designed to feel inclusive. The theme was “We the People,” and the evening began with the voices and pictures of young Americans from all walks of life singing. Soon they were replaced by a video of Americans working together, set to Bruce Springsteen’s  “The Rising.” The evening’s events focused on America’s youth and its people of color.

  • Letters From an American
    Political Parties — Are They Over?
    August 17, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    America needs at least two healthy political parties, and right now, with Republicans attacking the legitimacy of the Democrats, we are in danger of having none.

  • Letters From an American
    National 'Derecho'
    August 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Post Office, Homeland Security, Russia and an actual devastating storm
  • Letters From an American
    Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Hit the Road
    August 13, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    As the Democratic Joe Biden-Kamala Harris team began to campaign together to win the 2020 election, the contours of the upcoming political contest became clearer.

  • Carved in Stone? Trump's Big Plans
    August 11, 2020
    Mt. Rushmore, Gettysburg — what next?
  • Letters From an American
    Just Another Friday Night News Dump
    August 8, 2020

    America’s top news continues to touch on the upcoming election. The Friday night news dump was about the United States Postal Service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump loyalist, has recently created new rules for the agency that have dramatically slowed the delivery of mail just as mail-in voting for 2020 has begun. Today, DeJoy overhauled the USPS, releasing a new organizational chart that displaces postal executives with decades of experience and concentrates power in DeJoy ...

  • Letters From an American
    The NRA within the Sights
    August 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Millions missing and a Russian spy.
  • Letters From an American
    Trump has a Terrible Kodak Moment
    August 6, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Plus, the New York AG investigation into his finances is just beginning
  • Letters From an American
    The Disastrous Axios Interview and So Much More!
    August 5, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The Axios interview showed little that we didn’t already know, but to see the president dismiss the 156,000 deaths from coronavirus, for example, by saying “it is what it is,” was nonetheless shocking.



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