What can Hillary’s response to the killings in Orlando tell us about the kind of commander in chief she’d be? Fred Kaplan dives deep into the question of Clinton’s positions on national security and foreign policy. “In much the same way she sees domestic policy as a series of interlocking problems, Clinton takes a more expansive view than most hawks (or doves) of what ‘national security’ entails,” Kaplan writes. “In contrast with Trump, Clinton is less a hawk or a dove than a traditionalist, and a cautious one at that.”
How does it feel to be a Cleveland fan the day after the Cavaliers brought the city its first professional sports championship in 52 years? Pretty darn good, Rachael Larimore can tell you. “Us Cleveland fans are such gluttons for punishment, it’s only fitting that the path to victory was so challenging,” Larimore writes. “It means more because LeBron and the Cavs and the city of Cleveland, for the first time in my lifetime, pulled victory from the jaws of defeat.” (Elsewhere, Josh Levin marvels at finals MVP LeBron James, and Laura Wagner praises the Warriors’ Draymond Green, who played the heck out of a losing game.)
Chavi Eve Karkowsky, an OB-GYN with a lot of experience counseling expectant mothers, thinks she knows why it’s so hard to talk about Zika. “Let’s acknowledge that the decision to get pregnant and then raise a child is, frankly, terrifying,” Karkowsky writes. “And regardless of what the actual risk ends up being, let’s acknowledge that it is reasonable to feel scared by this disease that is making headlines daily. But let’s also remind ourselves that most of the time, the system works. Most of the time, your body works to make another body; and most of the time, everything really does go just fine.”
Nifty/handy: Input your street address into Slate’s NRA tracker and find out how much the organization has spent to support or oppose candidates in your district since 1990.
$1,055,844, supporting; $487,321, opposing,
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