Good morning. Tell us what you think of this new version of the newsletter at opiniontoday@nytimes.com. NotableRepublicans aren’t just gerrymandering North Carolina. “The boldness of Trump’s demands for next year’s midterms and the sweep with which Republicans have answered his summonses are far from the norm and beyond the pale.” — Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer Is a crucial financial market dragging us all too close to the flame? “It was a remarkable glimpse of the way financial institutions of vastly different statures have become interconnected — tangled up in complex webs of indebtedness and exposure that can multiply the damage when something goes wrong.” — Natasha Sarin, a contributing Opinion writer It needs to be said again: Leave Britney alone. “Some of Ms. Spears’s fans still feel she owes them her younger self. ‘I am a fan who wants answers,’ one Reddit user said. ‘Some of us grieve the old Britney.’” — Kat Tenbarge, who writes a newsletter about internet culture, politics and media SpotlightICYMIBruce Springsteen, my man crush. “Mr. Springsteen’s working-class, comparatively wholesome heteronormativity, as we wouldn’t have called it then, was either boring or radical.” — Bruce Handy, a pop-culture writer Listen
Jill Lepore: ‘Most Forms of Tyranny Do Come to an End’The historian on why change requires “determination and imagination” in a chat with David Leonhardt. In Your WordsRe: “How a Fringe Movement of Gun Nuts, Backwoodsmen and Free Marketers Paved the Way for Autocracy” Shocking as it is clear and well stated. A make believe currency enveloped and destroyed the American experiment in democracy before its 250th birthday. Greed won. — A comment posted by Robert, from California Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor. More in OpinionWe hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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