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Letters from an American – September 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 12, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 12, 2025 Since a gunman murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk at an outdoor event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, both social media circles and the political sphere have been alight with accusations that “the Left” was responsible for the shooting. Prominent…
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Letters from an American – September 11, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, September 11, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 11, 2025 Twenty-four years ago today, terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers in New York City and a third into the Pentagon in…
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Letters from an American – September 6, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 6, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 06, 2025 Today the social media account of President Donald J. Trump posted an AI-generated image of Trump as if he were Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore from the 1979 film Apocalypse Now in front of the Chicago skyline with military helicopters and flames…
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Letters from an American – September 5, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American September 5, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Sep 05, 2025 Today President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War, although the 1947 abandonment of the Department of War name was not simply a matter of substituting a new name for…
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Letters from an American – August 30, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 30, 2025 Just days before Labor Day, a holiday designed to celebrate the importance and power of American workers in the United States, the Transportation Department cancelled $679 million in funding for offshore wind projects, and the Department of Energy announced it is withdrawing a $716…
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Letters from an American – The Nineteenth Amendment – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American The Nineteenth Amendment By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 26, 2025 Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920. But I decided the political news yesterday couldn’t wait, so I dropped…
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Letters from an American – August 25, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 25, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson This morning, President Donald J. Trump talked to reporters as he signed several executive orders in the Oval Office. Trump sat behind the Resolute Desk as he has been doing lately, seeming to put its bulk between him and the reporters. Also as he…
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Letters from an American – August 23, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American August 23, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson “It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% of INTEL, a Great American Company that has an even more incredible future,” President Donald Trump wrote yesterday afternoon on social…
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Letters from an American – August 22, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American August 22, 2025, by Heather Cox Richardson In these last days of August, with Congress on hiatus and the Epstein files looming, the Trump White House appears to be making a big move to consolidate power over the federal government, weaponize it against Trump’s opponents, and keep him in power indefinitely.…
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Letters from an American – August 18, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, August 18, 2025 By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 18, 2025 This morning, J.D. Wolf of Meidas News pulled together all of Trump’s self-congratulatory posts from Sunday morning, when the president evidently was boosting his ego after Friday’s disastrous meeting with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Trump shared an AI-generated meme…
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Letters from an American – August 16, 2025 – by Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson, Aug 16, 2025 Yesterday, military personnel from the United States of America literally rolled out a red carpet for a dictator who invaded a sovereign country and is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes including the stealing of children. Apparently coached by his team,…
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Letters from an American – August 13, 2025 -Heather Cox Richardson
August 13, 2025, By Heather Cox Richardson On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. While he had already put in place new measures to regulate business and banking and had provided temporary work relief to combat the Depression, this law permanently changed the nature of the American…
