{"id":102442,"date":"2026-05-24T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/24\/may-23-2026-letters-from-an-american-heather-cox-richardson\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T05:48:07","slug":"may-23-2026-letters-from-an-american-heather-cox-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/24\/may-23-2026-letters-from-an-american-heather-cox-richardson\/","title":{"rendered":"May 23, 2026 &#8211; Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZkFVX3lxTE1HSFhPZVlTd0NUOWs2NTJWalExcWJKT2M3U05wdzlIekxOS09BUHc3Tm5jclBFTGhNWDNVZ1JRTlZPUUJ2a3FyTGk3dzhXaThpdnJERFhxQ3RqTFRublB1c28tS1F4dw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">May 23, 2026<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE1odUJkSWdzNWc5dnY1bFdaRGN1UVUtQWswQXVzYnJNYzYxR01sR2FVRFhhLW9PZV9aSUxCeG94dlhWMVRRWWJyNDFKc3V0dFhEX09EZ3otUXJJQjM5d3pVNnpFQnc3MnMwT2FZeHlaOUEzN21teFhxUlRmcTZ0MWM?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s towering arch clears another federal hurdle, despite public pushback<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">NPR<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE41OFFfci1HOERRcUE2VVRjTzZFaFIzN0VuS0xhRks5VDVnWXhBcHliR3liTW5DNlFkU3NFOWZsV3Btd0NIWEI4MXo2dm00c3hab094V2wtb3JxNEtWTlN3eDVIZTJlY0tCU2dEb2V3cEJkSXBmV0dIVnI1dkwwNEk?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Is Missing the Entire Point of Arches<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Atlantic<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE5saXZSdnVnRHlIcHhSYmMwbWw5V1JQMEZQMFhSYWFncVJKczVmaXBaV1ZOeW9EZFI0ek9OX2hVeGRaQ19uTHpzSE4ycUdrTldVUWIzRHVnX2pYanN4YzdtejcwODE0UkpiTWY0VDJRTWRteXIwRUt6b3E3LUlod2s?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Trump arch moves ahead \u2014 but monument loses eight feet and four lions<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">CNN<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE9hZXRmc3pvb01FeThfSHlXbW9YTFFnVVA1R1pMRW9XNmJhNE52aE00UDNvR2VhZENKaDFvQUUtQXR3LXBoVklBT01tYTRBS0ZHRWpqN2xTVkMzWXpHYThXZ1lfTnJ3by1ORnc4Vm1GUGMxZmlPNlRON3VVcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Panel Approves Trump\u2019s Plans for a 250-Foot Arch in Washington<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The New York Times<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 23, 2026&nbsp;&nbsp;Letters from an American | Heather Cox Richardson Trump&#8217;s towering arch clears another federal hurdle, despite public pushback&nbsp;&nbsp;NPR Trump Is Missing the Entire&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/24\/may-23-2026-letters-from-an-american-heather-cox-richardson\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}