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Also in The Atlantic, David Graham pondered the different vibes projected by Representative Conor Lamb, who lost the Democratic Senate primary in Pennsylvania, and John Fetterman, who won: Lamb seems like a candidate created in a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee lab: Hes young, Kennedy-handsome, a Marine and former federal prosecutor who looks born to wear suits. By contrast, Fetterman looks like he was hacked together from spare parts in an oil-streaked Pittsburgh chopper garage. (Jeannie MacDonald, Portsmouth, N.H.)

In his Esquire newsletter, Charles Pierce responded to the revelation that hundreds of Native American children had died in government-sponsored schools by writing: Sooner or later the angry angel of history was coming to our door. (Louise Machen, Cody, Wyo.)

In The Times, Ross Douthat assessed Elon Musks messy and unresolved ascent toward ownership of Twitter by alluding to Icarus: Sometimes you leap and have a birds wings to bear you upward. Sometimes, though, all you have is its disintegrating feathers or, still worse, not its plumage but its tweets. (Pete Andrews, Chapel Hill, N.C.)

Bret Stephens wrote: The problem the G.O.P. has had for some time now is that in many states and districts, not to mention the presidential contest, the candidate most likely to win a primary is least likely to win a general election. Republican primaries are like holding a heavy metal air guitar contest in order to compete for a place in a jazz ensemble. (Jeff Merkel, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Paul Spitz, Cincinnati, among others)

And Vronique Hyland rhapsodized about a fashion dump of discarded garments and accessories that were there for the taking: When I walked into curated, antiseptic boutiques, I felt starved for novelty. Surveying the Swap Shops jumble, I saw infinite possibilities. Even the most dated clothes seemed ready to spring to life, like actors of a certain age waiting to be rediscovered by Quentin Tarantino. (Jeannie Naujeck, Durham, N.C., and Pam DeAngelus, Cedar Grove, N.J.)

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