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1. In 1888, a disastrous blizzard hit the east coast. It claimed 400 lives, sank 200 ships, and paralyzed cities for days. And if you want to understand what’s going
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1. Quick thread on the only recorded criminal arrest of a sitting U.S. president—made by a D.C. Police offering for speeding, a century and a half ago.https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2018/12/16/police-officer-who-arrested-president
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Lowell High School is on this list because of objections to the views of James Russell Lowell. The district’s own spreadsheet helpfully notes that the school is named for the
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1. A short thread for followers, readers, and interested United States senators about what impeachment is for, and how it actually works. 2. The first point—one I made at length
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1. A brief thread about a truly obscure episode in American constitutional law that may well become all-important in the days ahead. 2. No president has ever issued a self-pardon.
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1. A short thread of @TheAtlIdeas authors on the president’s fondness for, and propensity to extend pardons to, war criminals: 2. "Being no different from or better than our enemies
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1. Five perspectives on what’s happening right now, as most House Republicans join most GOP attorneys general in asking the Supreme Court to set aside the election.First, clarity from @GrahamDavidA:
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1. For our December issue, I wrote about a question that has obsessed me of late: What happens when a large section of the population becomes convinced that it cannot
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1. This is not the most consequential thing on the nation’s mind this evening. But President Trump’s election eve announcement of a 1776 Commission underlines one of the odder failures
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1. A short thread on the executive actions the president signed while I was offline today. I think they’re a very big deal, for reasons that extend beyond their specifics—they
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1. So many of our constitutional freedoms trace back to the trauma of the police-state imposed on Boston in the years before Lexington—and lately, I’ve been thinking again about one
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