Morning Open Thread ❧ Tuesday with a brief story of the first US Capital

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right." - H. L. Mencken

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Tuesday’s Morning Open Thread.

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Cheers everyone. I’m on vacation this week and very much enjoying my down time. While I had planned to keep my news scrolling to a minimum, the Madison Square Garden event was too tempting—oh, lord have mercy, what a world we live in. And that’s all I’ll say on that.

I do hope everyone is having a fine start to the week.

Given that we don’t have a permanent editor for Tuesdays, I figured we could use the slot as a refresher on some basics of the election process, institutions, and political philosophies. So, for the next few weeks, I’m going to feature a few overall explanations a maybe a couple closer looks.

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Grab your coffee or tea and join us, please.

What's on your mind this morning?