Fountain House's "Measures That Matter" project was built by the people it was meant to serve.

Fountain House's "Measures That Matter" project was built by the people it was meant to serve.

Over 100 people with lived experience of serious mental health conditions helped shape the framework — a small, specific counterweight to the usual abstract-policy fog.

Gobble's Take: "Measure better" is either the most practical fix in a broken system, or the most politely infuriating one. Possibly both. Source: Best Mental Health Articles

Heather Cox Richardson: "Days off have been thin on the ground in 2026 as the news comes at us like a firehose."

That quote appears in the August 11, 2026 entry of her archive, published on August 12, 2026. The archive shows entries published on the same day as the date they cover.

Recent entries in the archive include "Trump's Tough Guy Aspirations," "The Road to Resignation," "Week Eleven in 250 to 250," and "The Voting Rights Act," running daily through early August 2026.

Gobble's Take: The archive shows daily entries from Letters from an American, each published on the date it covers.

Source: Archive - Letters from an American - Heather Cox Richardson

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