Today:
- Luke Broadwater☀️ with the latest congressional news and analysis,
- Nancy Solomon recaps her 'Ask Gov. Murphy' interview,
- Te-Ping Chen on Gen Z and trade careers,
- Faith Hill on whether teenagers are still babysitting,

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spent my youth in CVS and Quickchek and i have no regrets

Okay this very interesting piece by Faith Hill makes me think we have an opportunity to rebrand the whole 'type' concept. Do you have a type? Or are you just an expert in navigating the emotional landscape of a sensitive weirdo?

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Wednesday reads: James Yeh for Vulture, Brian Chau for City Journal, Faith Hill for The Atlantic, Lauren Oyler for The Week, rebecky interviews Alexandra Tanner for Dirt, Alec Dent for The Bulwark, and many others.

“one more failure, / the instructions // dyed to the letter”: I love this new poem by AD in The Atlantic 💜

there's a lot to like about Montessori parenting, Kate Cray writes, but it is emphatically not, as one parent claimed, a recipe to make parenting a 'fairyland.' Kate separates fact from fairytale in this great piece:

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When I was pregnant I told my obgyn that I had taken no childbirth classes, had no birth plan, nada. She said, 'Eh. Doctors will teach you how to have the baby at the hospital. The U.S. is good at that. You're only screwed when the baby gets home.' theatlantic.com/family/archive…