We published a piece by Maureen earlier this year reflecting on the death of Flaco the owl in New York City, and what Flaco symbolized to her as a middle-aged ex-pat. Today, we’re happy to feature another perspective from Maureen: a break-up letter to her ex, the United States of America. You can read the full piece here.
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Reader review.
In this section, we like to include reader responses that counter or challenge opinions we publish in the newsletter. In response to our coverage of the RNC convention, commenter Vicki Greenburg cast some shade over Isaac's mostly sunny outlook on the convention, sharing her “moderately conservative” friends’ observations:
I know every woman at the convention was all in, but all of my (moderately) conservative woman friends struggle with what were once far right fringe goals of clawing back women's rights is now one of the right's frog boiling experiments.
I speak cautiously about politics with these women, I mostly just let them talk, they DID notice Trump's walk-on song was "It's a Man's World" (and it bothered them) and that Melania did not speak a word at the event and avoided kissing Trump. They DID NOT know that Hulk Hogan is an alleged batterer & that there is video of Dana White beating his wife in public...
What I saw of the convention and MAGA's vision for the future creeped me out, I hated the fact that they rushed through the platform so they could quickly get on to giving restless MAGA followers what they came there for; getting off on hate filled rhetoric against "the others."
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