The Wednesday Curator – 6/24/15

June 23, 2015

Charleston can’t be far from anyone’s mind. I read three pieces which really resonated. First, here’s Clementa Pinckey, a Martyr of Reconciliation by David Blight for The Atlantic. Then there’s Charles Blow’s column for the New York Times, In Charleston, a Millennial Race Terrorist. Finally, David Remnick, Editor of the New Yorker, wrote Charleston and the Age of Obama for his magazine. I’m sure this signal event will change nothing about our insane gun policies. Maybe, just maybe, we can hope for a bit of intelligent conversation about race and a war the losers are still fighting 150 years almost to the day after it ended.

With the expectation that we will learn the fate of the Affordable Care

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