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  • The Morning After: Grading My Election Predictions

    The Morning After: Grading My Election Predictions

    How did one Kentucky teacher’s election predictions hold up? This morning-after review grades the 2026 midterm calls, from Talarico’s historic Texas win and Mississippi’s razor-thin Senate count to central Kentucky, then asks what a 60-day lame duck Congress should do about college sports and the Iran war.

  • My Election Morning Predictions: The Bluegrass and Beyond

    My Election Morning Predictions: The Bluegrass and Beyond

    What will happen in the 2026 midterms? One Kentucky social studies teacher shares his center-left election morning predictions for Congress, the Barr-Booker Senate race, the Sixth District, and Lexington’s mayoral contest, plus a simple way to turn election forecasts into a source literacy lesson.

  • RIP Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)

    RIP Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)

    Oh Captain, my captain!

  • Hammer and Crown: The Twin Revolutions Hidden in Luther’s 95 Theses

    Hammer and Crown: The Twin Revolutions Hidden in Luther’s 95 Theses

    Most people learn the story of Martin Luther as a dramatic theological showdown, a lone monk with a hammer and a grievance, nailing his objections to a church door in Wittenberg and setting off five centuries of religious transformation. It’s a compelling image, and it’s not wrong. But it’s incomplete. Because when you read Luther’s…

  • What If Roosevelt Survived Milwaukee, Won the Presidency, and Then Died in Office?

    What If Roosevelt Survived Milwaukee, Won the Presidency, and Then Died in Office?

    #WhatIf Roosevelt wins in 1912, then dies of his Milwaukee wound eight months into office. Hiram Johnson inherits a rudderless Progressive Party, a fractured coalition, and a Mexican Revolution that a weakened White House cannot manage with the coherence Wilson brought to it.

  • What If Roosevelt Had Been Killed Outright in Milwaukee?

    What If Roosevelt Had Been Killed Outright in Milwaukee?

    #WhatIf Teddy Roosevelt is killed outright in 1912 Milwaukee, and Taft — Cincinnati-born and Over-the-Rhine adjacent — leverages his father’s German-American networks to fracture the Irish Democratic machines at the moment they are least able to protect their own coalition partners.

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