What happened in Haiti: Donald Trump is trying to make Haiti’s sad recent history the Clintons’ fault. Not so, Jonathan Katz writes. The two failed in many ways, but they didn’t—for example—steal post-earthquake relief money. “It ignores all history and logic to pin the whole sordid tale of Haiti’s relief and reconstruction disasters on one couple, no matter how powerful they have been,” Katz concludes.
Technological bias: Emergency rooms should stop using the frequent-flyer icon to designate patients who have returned multiple times over a given month, Michelle Joy and Dominic Sisti write. The practice contributes to the inequality of medical outcomes for the mentally ill, who tend to die 30 years (!) younger than the rest of the population.
Liberal exceptions: Lefties favoring gun control need to pay attention to a recent spate of cases fighting to retain Second Amendment rights for immigrants, medical marijuana card-holders, and the disabled. “The issue has worked some progressives into knots,” Mark Joseph Stern writes. “But I think it’s an easy call.”
Doll story: Aisha Harris looks into the making of American Girl’s first black doll—Addy, a former slave—and writes a history of delicate historical negotiations and serious racial uneasiness.
Cream of the crop: For Slate Plus, we picked our favorite pieces from Slate’s 20-year-deep archive. (Slate Plus memberships, still on sale, tra la la.)
For fun: Give us our sports idiots!
Let them run!
Rebecca
