Children Shouldn’t Live Or Die Like This

Dammit, why is this “a day every parent dreads”? Why is this kind of “painful event” something so common as to inspire dread in every parent? Why did Alexsandra Romero and her classmates have to develop combat-evasion instincts that can be applied in her homeroom? Why in the unshirted hell is this country so attached to its goddamn firearms when that fetishism perverts the normal school day this way? This was the twelfth mass shooting in Georgia this year. The suspect was taken into custody at the scene. He is fourteen years old. If you’re having trouble viewing this email, [view in browser]( What the hell happened in politics this week? Esquire's legendary blogger Charlie P. Pierce has answers No Parent in America Should Have to Live in Fear of Their Kids Being Murdered in School No Parent in America Should Have to Live in Fear of Their Kids Being Murdered in School Dammit, why is this “a day every parent dreads”? Why is this kind of “painful event” something so common as to inspire dread in every parent? Why did Alexsandra Romero and her classmates have to develop combat-evasion instincts that can be applied in her homeroom? Why in the unshirted hell is this country so attached to its goddamn firearms when that fetishism perverts the normal school day this way? This was the twelfth mass shooting in Georgia this year. The suspect was taken into custody at the scene. He is fourteen years old. [Read More]( [No Matter What Politico Says, the Fundamentals of Trumpism Started Long Before Trump]( [No Matter What Politico Says, the Fundamentals of Trumpism Started Long Before Trump]( I admit it. Tiger Beat on the Potomac suckered me into reading Jonathan Martin’s lengthy speculation about how the Republican party might be better off if and when El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago finally shuffles off this electoral coil. This, of course, could happen in a little more than sixty days, although I take the point that this guy may never stop running for president until his coronary arteries finally get around to doing their patriotic duty. Until then, however, he will have at least 35 percent of the GOP’s voting public in his pocket. [Read More]( [This Was a Boss Political Move by Joe Biden]( [This Was a Boss Political Move by Joe Biden]( The current president of the United States has decided to continue to do the job of president of the United States until he’s not the president of the United States anymore. This week, he let that be known in a very big way. The deal by which Nippon Steel would buy U.S. Steel for $14.9 billion has been an under-the-radar controversy for some time now. The president lined up against it in March, and the United Steelworkers are vigorously opposed. [Read More]( [North Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Robinson Says No, He Wasn’t a Regular at a Porn Shop]( [North Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Robinson Says No, He Wasn’t a Regular at a Porn Shop]( If you’re a political consultant and your candidate has already said that the movie Black Panther was made by “an agnostic Jew” and the Holocaust was “hogwash,” this is one of those headlines that you don’t really want to read over your first Thorazine of the morning. Yikes. Mark Robinson, who’s already the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, which is strange enough, is more than simply the latest in a lengthening line of utter crackpots nominated by the Republican Party that began with the likes of Christine O’Donnell of Delaware and Sharron Angle of Nevada and continued through the likes of Dr. Oz and Herschel Walker. [Read More]( [I Have A Real Problem With Trump's Arlington Visit]( [I Have A Real Problem With Trump's Arlington Visit]( Even for a cynical sod like me, Arlington National Cemetery is a place that hushes the mind. Rarely do I go to Washington when I don’t stop by the gentle hillside beneath the mansion that once belonged to the traitor, R.E. Lee and visit the Kennedy plot. What is most moving to me is not the eternal flame, although that’s a lovely touch, or the elaborate semi-plaza dedicated to the slain president, but the resting place of his slain brother, the senator from New York, buried there like a Franciscan beneath a simple white wooden cross, and also the markers memorializing the late president’s children who died at birth, or not long after it—the stillborn daughter, informally named Arabella by her mother, and young Patrick, who lived only 39 days and died three months before his father did in 1963. [Read More]( Follow Us [Unsubscribe]( | [Privacy Notice]( | [CA Notice at Collection]( Esquire is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2024 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779