| Many readers of this newsletter will have no memory, or at best a dim memory, of March 30, 1981, when John Hinckley fired six shots at President Ronald Reagan, wounding the president and three others. So, for most Americans, the news that Hinckley has been granted his unconditional release next year — after years of gradually lightened restrictions — may barely be noticed amidst a worldwide pandemic and multiple Capitol Hill showdowns. But for Patti Davis, Reagan's daughter, "the memory of that day will never fade." "In my mind's eye," she writes, "I will always picture Hinckley's cold eyes as he blew open White House press secretary Jim Brady's head, as he wounded Secret Service Special Agent Tim McCarthy and Metropolitan Police Department Officer Thomas Delahanty. I will always picture my father being shoved into the limousine after a shot struck his lung and nearly grazed his heart." And while the rest of us can read about Hinckley's release and move on with our lives, Davis doesn't have that freedom. "Now there is another fear — that the man who wielded that gun and almost got his wish of assassinating the president could decide to contact me. There is no manual for how to deal with something like this. You can't Google it or look for reference material. You just have to live with the fear, and the anger, and the darkness that one person keeps bringing into your life."  (Evan Vucci/AP) When someone you love is gunned down, time doesn't move on from that day. By Patti Davis ● Read more » | | | | If the U.S. child-care system was always relatively threadbare, today it is unraveling. By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » | | | | Don't believe the purveyors of fear. Get the booster. By Hugh Hewitt ● Read more » | | | | No comment from the network about a claim that upends a platform of a top anchor. By Erik Wemple ● Read more » | | | | Maybe congressional Democrats will devolve into a smoking ruin. But even if they do, the Biden administration has major accomplishments for which it deserves credit. By Eugene Robinson ● Read more » | | | After playing footsie with Trump's big lie, Youngkin tries to walk it all back By Greg Sargent ● Read more » | | | | Only by minimizing Republican gains from redistricting can they have any hope of passing democratic reforms. By Paul Waldman ● Read more » | | | | Those committed to liberal democracy need a plan for resisting if Trumpists retake power. By Michael Gerson ● Read more » | | | |
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