Insecure: Jordan Weissmann argues that Trump’s health policy proposals—ending the Affordable Care Act, turning Medicare funding into block grants to states—would leave an unpredictably huge number of Americans uninsured.
Democracy Day: Wouldn’t our lives be better if we could all just take a government-sanctioned holiday on Tuesday, so we could exercise our right to vote without the stress of fitting it in around work? Maybe not, Osita Nwanevu warns. For one thing, what about all the businesses that don’t observe federal holidays? For their workers, such a “day off” would only be a burden.
Those look-ups: Franklin Foer writes an update to his Monday piece about a Trump server that appears to have been communicating with a Russian bank.
Time for a turn: Will voters in Forysth County, Georgia—the notorious “White County” that ran all of its black citizens out of its borders in 1912—elect a black candidate to office this year? Patrick Phillips, who has been writing about his home county’s history for a decade, looks at the odds.
Peak Chicago: As Cubs fan (and stadium vendor) Justin Peters celebrates Wednesday night’s World Series win and Matthew Dessem rounds up the series’ best Bill Murray moments, longtime Red Sox fan Seth Stevenson tells Chicagoans to savor it; the pure joy of breaking a long losing streak is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
For fun: Beyoncé and the Dixie Chicks performed Bey’s song “Daddy Lessons” at the Country Music Association Awards, and it was sublime.
That saxophonist though,
Rebecca
