Reading archive 2022-06-13

A Black Army vet spent 16 months in solitary. Then a jury heard the evidence against him.: Andrew Johnson refused to plead guilty to attempted murder charges, insisting he’d been defending himself during a confrontation in California.

How the White House lost Joe Manchin, and its plan to transform America - "'It was not like this was the biggest insult in the world,' said Dean Baker, a White House ally who works at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a left-leaning think tank. 'The idea you would have done something good for the country, but instead will not do it because you think someone in the White House may have insulted you is kind of crazy.'"

D.C. mayoral candidates meet on TV, with voting underway and passions high

The town crier: Deepening suspicions. A parallel voting system. Dumpster diving for documents. In northwest Georgia, a woman known as ‘Burnitdown’ portends what the Trump movement is becoming.