What’s Trump Up to Now?: Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening that he has incorporated an inadequate, and in some ways destructive, family leave policy into his campaign platform. This is good news, Michelle Goldberg writes; at the very least, the Republican candidate now feels the need to make family leave an issue. Meanwhile, Reihan Salam argues that Trump’s announcement shows that the Republican Party is suffering from a deep ideological rift.
The “You Look Ridiculous” Award of the Day: Goes to Clemson football coach Dabo Swinney, who has said (in public! how embarrassing) that Martin Luther King Jr. would not have approved of protesting football players taking a knee during the national anthem. Josh Levin explains all the different ways in which this is wrong.
20 Years: Today’s installments in our anniversary package, looking back at the key events of the past two decades: Fred Kaplan’s history of the first drone strike, which took place in 2001, and Emily Yoffe’s memories of journalist, friend, and Slate contributor Marjorie Williams, who died in 2005.
All Hail the State of Connecticut: Which has, as Henry Grabar writes, decided to put bar cars in the next group of new Metro-North trains, which go into service in 2019.
For Fun: In an alternate universe somewhere, Donald Trump reviews art-house films on Twitter.
So low energy, you have no idea,
Rebecca
