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Letters from an American – October 13, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 13, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 13, 2025 Last Tuesday, President Donald J. Trump showed to Canadian officials a plan for a triumphal arch that would sit on the banks of the Potomac River opposite the Lincoln Memorial in a traffic rotary at the Virginia end of the Arlington…
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Letters from an American – October 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American Letters from an American – October 12, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 12, 2025 On October 9, President Donald J. Trump’s office issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13, “Columbus Day.” The proclamation says that the day is one on which “our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus—the original…
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Letters from an American – October 8, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American October 8, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 08, 2025 Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S. Army Reserve Center in Elwood, Illinois, about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southwest of Chicago. This morning, the Defense Department announced the federal activation of about 200 soldiers from the…
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Letters from an American – October 7, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 7, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 07, 2025 The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today floated the idea that workers furloughed during a government shutdown are not guaranteed back pay when the shutdown is resolved. Marc Caputo of Axios broke the story of the new OMB memo this…
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Letters from an American – October 3, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 3, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 03, 2025 Although President Donald J. Trump has not appeared in public since Tuesday, his social media account has been posting up a storm. Just three weeks ago, administration officials were insisting that Democrats were responsible for hateful political speech. Trump’s account last…
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Letters from an American – October 1, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, October 1, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 01, 2025 Last night, as the government barreled toward a shutdown, President Donald J. Trump posted yet another doctored video on social media. This one showed House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) reacting to Trump’s deepfake video of September 29 that faked Senate…
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September 25, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 25, 2025 Heather Cox Richardson Sep 25, 2025 Today, with the popularity of President Donald J. Trump and his administration dropping, Trump’s disastrous performance at the United Nations, the return of comedian Jimmy Kimmel to the airwaves, and the Tuesday’s election in Arizona of Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva, who will…
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Letters from an American – September 22, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 22, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 22, 2025 Conservative writer Bill Kristol took to social media today to say: “So many coverups. Release the Epstein files. Release the Homan tapes. Release the Venezuelan fishing boats evidence.” Kristol was referring to three stories about which members of the administration seem…
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Letters from an American – September 19, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 19, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 19, 2025 Today U.S. District Judge Steven Merryday threw out the $15 billion lawsuit President Donald J. Trump filed on September 15 against the New York Times for defamation. The judge, who was appointed by President George H.W. Bush, called the complaint “decidedly…
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Letters from an American – September 18, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 18, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 18, 2025 Since he took office in 2017, President Donald J. Trump has worked hard to convince Americans that they are divided into two partisan camps: Republicans, whom he defines as those people loyal to him, and Democrats, a group made up of…
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Letters from An American – September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 17, 2025 (Wednesday) By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 17, 2025 This evening, John Koblin, Michael M. Grynbaum, and Brooks Barnes of the New York Times reported that ABC was pulling the television show of comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air. The suspension is allegedly over his comments Monday about the…
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Letters from an American – September 13, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 13, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 13, 2025 President Donald J. Trump has been trying to remove Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook from the board of governors, alleging she lied on a mortgage application by claiming two homes as primary residences, which could garner a lower interest rate. Yesterday…
