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Let Them Eat Cake Katie Phang Oct 11 “Let them eat cake.” It is almost universally thought that Marie Antoinette said the above quote in response to her subjects’ suffering. But surprise! She apparently never said it. No matter. Every schoolchild forced to take European history knows the story anyway: A queen so out of touch with her starving subjects that she tells them to swap bread for tastier carbs with money they don’t have. Her (not historically accurate) advice was not well-received and Marie? Well, she lost her title and her head for it. This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. I bring up dear Marie because there’s a new version of the story playing out in the towns and cities in Europe as I write this Substack. Simultaneously, in the US almost every Republican attack ad playing on TV or the radio this election has some version of “[insert name] is a socialist!” This time it has nothing to do with ...

  ❤️ Donate Monday, September 7, 2026 🕶️ Sunny with a high near 78. Good Morning Boston, It was likely impossible not to hear the news Friday that a Plymouth County judge declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, a Duxbury mother who was charged with strangling her three children in 2023. The high-profile case has received international attention, bringing conversations about maternal mental health to the forefront . After seven days of deliberations and a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court, jurors were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether Clancy should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz says his office will make a decision on a retrial "soon," WBUR's Deborah Becker reports. Deb has been covering this harrowing case since 2023. She shares what it's been like inside the courtroom in the first episode of a special WBU...