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August 2025

Labor Day’s Bloody Birth — and Its Presidential Echo: Part I
President Grover Cleveland: “If it takes the entire army and navy of the United States to deliver a postcard in Chicago, that card will be delivered.”
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Labor Day’s Bloody Birth — and Its Presidential Echo: Part II
The only two nonconsecutive presidents in American history also happen to be the only ones brazen enough to turn federal power inward, unleashing troops…
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LL Cool Cal IV: Our 30th President was Deeply Weird
I’ve spent decades in presidents’ head.
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Reply Some: Have other presidents televised their cabinet meetings?
Reply Some is a recurring dispatch in which I selectively respond to your questions and comments.
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Wordy Wednesdays on a Tuesday: All-Hands on the Arc
Or: Bend it before it bends us.
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Get That Unaccountable Cone
Caity Weaver's Doubloons. Plus, A Roundtable: "Like is Ahab crazy or ‘crazy crazy.'"
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Wordy Wednesdays: The Articles of Situationships & More Idiomatic Behavior
You’re not asking for too much. You’re just in a structure designed to fail.
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Reply Some: When Grief Took Office
Reply Some is a recurring dispatch in which I selectively respond to your questions and comments.
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LL Cool Cal III: The White House Funeral That Ended a Presidency
Subscribe for history you’ll actually want to repeat.
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LL Cool Cal II: "In Her Story, I was Already Dead"
LL Cool Cal Week Continues
LL Cool Cal I: The Mechanical Horse That Rocked the 30th President—3x a day
One senator proposed renaming it “Foreign Policy,” since it had no head or tail.
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