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Fear and Loathing as Trump Payment Deadline Looms. As he struggles to post bond, Trump seems truly fearful. His claims of “I’m really rich,” writes a financial crimes expert, seem like a desert mirage. The great @JenTaub explains.
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Democrats and activists with power and influence must start raising hell now—in the weeks before the election—to alert the public about the tactic GOP officials are using to slow down the vote count in three battleground states, writes @EricCortellessa. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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When Republicans controlled the House, they had White House staffers testify behind closed doors. But now Democrats will make sure that Mueller has a transcript of all those interviews.
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Trump has engaged in public corruption on a scale unseen in American history, even in the 19th century Gilded Age, writes @DavidOAtkins. And that's in addition to destructive public policy, his personal odiousness, and lurches toward authoritarianism. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/1…
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Reporters cast the widest possible net to find corroboration with Tara Reade’s allegations, writes @BooMan23. Their findings revealed no pattern of behavior to buttress her story.
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The midterm elections could well unfold during a formidable Biden boom, which certainly would be good news for the Democrats, writes @robshapiro. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/1…
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If Joe Biden is president facing a plus 1 GOP majority Senate, he offers Susan Collins secretary of state and the Democratic governor of Maine appoints a Democrat to replace her. Problem solved.
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We are witnessing during this endless post-election period a coordinated GOP attempt to murder the American system of government. That’s why @Profepps argues for disbarment, monetary sanctions, and maybe even jail for the lawyers taking part. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/1…
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Steve Bannon’s indictment is a predictor of more to come — possibly something broad enough to encompass a number of Trump hires and volunteers, writes @JillWineBanks. And it’s part of a legal morass that is still getting larger for Trump. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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Her lifelong career in public service renders @KamalaHarris fully qualified and prepared to serve as VP, (She’s no less qualified than Obama was at the time he became president.) writes @JulieZebrak. And her race and gender make her perfect for the moment. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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How Jimmy Carter Kept Me Sane. Carter biographer and @Monthly contributing editor @jonathanalter explains why the Georgian's kindness and honesty were a tonic for him during the toxic @realDonaldTrump years.
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Mincing no words, former State Department official @JamesLBruno: “I want lawmakers, journalists and the public to fully understand: There is no way President Trump could not have known about these explosive reports. He knew—and he chose to do nothing.” washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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Why the “Weird” Charge From Governor Tim Walz Against Republicans Works. The vice presidential pick and Minnesota governor gets at the crisis in masculinity that the GOP has exploited expertly—until now.
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A President Kamala Harris wouldn't have transformed us into a police state, argues @JulieZebrak. Rather, she would have presented a golden opportunity to improve the very laws and policies that progressives loathe.
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A world in which Republican Attorneys General play loose with the law and Democrats feel obliged to defend them out of a misguided sense of institutional integrity is one placing comity over justice and precedent over truth. @jentaub for @monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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American officers can no longer show up in developing countries with a straight face to advance principles of democracy if we let our own president get away with his corruption, argues @JulieZebrak.
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A real estate developer wins executive office. He then maintains an active interest in his business, putting his family in charge, and carries out policies to boost his profits. Sounds like Donald Trump, right? Turns out, it's Larry Hogan. washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
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Almost the entire international community stands against #Putin, creating the exact Western unity he has spent two decades trying to undermine, writes @jonathanalter. #Ukraine washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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DAG Lisa Monaco recently lit a fire under career corporate criminals, would-be offenders, and their defenders, writes @jentaub. With clarity and detail, the DOJ veteran identified the department’s new efforts—and new mind-set—to combat corporate crime. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/1…
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That Kentucky law Mitch McConnell engineered so if he had to resign, the Democratic governor would have to fill the vacancy with a Republican?
It violates the 17th Amendment.
Garrett Epps explains: washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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As journalists unconsciously try to fit Trump’s rambling, spontaneous utterances into a conventional framework, Americans are denied the full truth of the crisis of leadership in the Oval Office, writes @DavidOAtkins. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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He’s monitored more than 100 elections around the world. Now Jimmy Carter is taking on GOP efforts to suppress the vote in the State of Georgia and across the country. @HardballChris for @monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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“It smacked more than a little of sexism that only the woman in the race had to get the details all squared away while Sanders, Biden and Buttigieg remained vague,” writes @DavidOAtkins. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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The @jentaub explains why Merrick Garland's delay in starting the Jan 6 investigation was even worse than you think.
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A military-intelligence source explains, in an interview with @glastris, that we’ve had Green Berets going into #Ukraine for years training Ukrainian special forces for just this kind of moment. This resistance was very well planned out. washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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Do we all remember the piece in @politico titled “How DeSantis Won the Pandemic?” Predictably, it was wrong. @DavidOAtkins for @monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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If you’re barely beating the Ukrainians, do you really want to engage the NATO alliance in a war? @McFaul talks Putin with @BobSHRowley. washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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Take Trump Seriously and Literally by @glastris. Journalists and voters who say Trump’s campaign promises and threats are empty rhetoric are deluding themselves
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Let’s call it what it is: The president and his son-in-law deliberately allowing 140,000 plus Americans to die of a pandemic, because it would mostly kill off their political opponents and poor people of color, constitutes genocide, argues @DavidOAtkins. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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The richly reported courtroom diary of @JonathanAlter continues with cameos from @harrylitman, @gtconway3d, @EricTrump, @KenPaxtonTX, the @cspan archivist, and what Trump's lawyers could learn from "My Cousin Vinny."
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"On nearly every important measure, the Biden economy is better than the Reagan economy." It’s Time for “Morning in America” by @Billscher in the Washington @Monthly.
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Friday’s news demonstrates that the president and his attorney general appear to be engaged in multiple simultaneous coverups and conspiracies of obstruction, writes @DavidOAtkins. The ballot box is our last resort to hold them accountable. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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.@FeliciaWongRI speaks truth: President Biden has led the country to the cusp of a fundamentally new era, shifting the relationship of government to the economy. But the public has no idea that this is happening. washingtonmonthly.com/2023/0…
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Help from Russia and other countries is the "little blue pill" Trump is counting on to win in 2020, argues @JulieZebrak.
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In his book "The Imposters," @stevebenen exposes the true GOP with a staggering chronicle of their duplicity, indifference to facts and empirical data, and self-serving partisanship -- beginning long before Trump. @ed_kilgore reviews "The Imposters" here. washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
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This man was found innocent of any crime—but he still owes his bail bondsman $10,000. washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
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Democrats Should Run Against the Supreme Court--and they should take on more than the overturning of Roe v. Wade. @DavidOAtkins on why Biden and his party must take on the whole Trump-enabled, rights-stealing, gift-taking conservative supermajority.
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That Nunes didn't even read the sensitive documents he demanded from Rod Rosenstein shows that he only requested them in the hopes that the deputy attorney general would refuse, providing grounds for his impeachment.
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Did you know about John Eastman’s role in stopping the recounts in the 2000 presidential election in Florida? Professor Garrett Epps explores how those arguments prefigured Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert the Electoral College. washingtonmonthly.com/2023/0…
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"The story about @AOC’s haircut is the story about how women continue to face enormous—and often superficially imposed—obstacles to achieving power and influence," writes @JulieZebrak. washingtonmonthly.com/2019/1…
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The @JoeConason on How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked Conservatism and how cons from Trump University to the Build-the-Wall ripoff became central to the MAGA creed. A conversation with David Masciotra in the Washington @Monthly.
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.@JulieZebrak explains why turning out for the census is just as important as turning out for the next election. washingtonmonthly.com/2019/1…
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Mitch Landrieu is a rare Southern white Democrat willing to talk frankly about the legacy of white supremacy in America. washingtonmonthly.com/2018/0…
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.@RepKinzinger on Putin: His biggest fear is not the expansion of NATO. It’s that there are countries on his border that will show that democracy works and that his people will come to realize they can actually self-determine. Interview by @BobSHRowley. washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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Members of the GOP bristle at the notion of their government asking them to wear a mask. Yet, at the same time, they support the government’s ability to decide what a woman does with her body. @Smartypants60 notes the irony. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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The Chaos of the Supreme Court’s Last Term—and What May Be Coming This Time by Garrett Epps. With their new term, nine justices face roiling legal waters and the bench’s profound dysfunction. A deep dive into an institution that is “not well.”
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The Democrats need to start working now to make sure the same women who showed up in 2018 and 2020 don’t sit out 2022. @JulieZebrak has some ideas on how to keep folks revved up.
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The GOP is using its muscle to close polling locations in majority-black neighborhoods in Georgia—exactly what the Voting Rights Act was supposed to prevent. washingtonmonthly.com/2018/0…
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Has Trump Gone Even Crazier? Forget parsing every Biden utterance. The likely GOP nominee is forgetting where he is, stumbling over words, and waxing full fascist, as @jimzirin explains in the Washington @Monthly.
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Trump proposed tapping Elon Musk to audit the government & root out waste
But Musk is not the best choice & not just bc he's a Trump donor
His SpaceX is a government contractor. As we've explained for years, to root out waste we must end overreliance on private contractors
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If @NextGenAmerica helps Democrats win in November, it will be partly because they're directing a lot of human power at a narrow target: college students in swing states. washingtonmonthly.com/2018/0…
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If Sanders’s supporters sit out this election, as some have threatened, all of the policy issues that they care deeply about will be non-starters for at least a generation, writes @JulieZebrak. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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Sarah Isgur’s resume includes working with Ted Cruz and the RNC.
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"Roberts, with two degrees from Harvard, is among the most educated lawyers ever to sit on the high bench. But not since the late Chief Justice Warren Burger has a Supreme Court justice been so openly, flamboyantly anti-intellectual as Roberts."
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Most #NeverTrumper columnists use their platforms to abdicate responsibility for the president's rise. But @MaxBoot owns up to the party's dark shadows that allowed for an authoritarian to emerge.
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Why Samuel Alito Wants To Be Your Gynecologist. Hilarious and wise Garrett Epps explains in the @monthly: The Court’s conservative supermajority doesn’t seem likely to curtail mifepristone, but not for lack of trying by the justice who wrote Dobbs.
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The Supreme Court, led by Justice Thomas, is gutting our ability to respond to a persistent and uniquely American public health problem—gun violence by domestic partners. @Profepps for @monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2023/0…
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Could the United States experience prolonged, acute civil violence?
According to @dblock94’s dozens of interviews with former and current government officials, counterterrorism researchers, and political scientists, the answer is yes. washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
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The damage of social media algorithms (and Facebook’s in particular) to democracy and to journalism must be confronted directly, writes @DavidOAtkins. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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Michael Flynn was a counterintelligence concern even before he became a Trump surrogate washingtonmonthly.com/2017/0…
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The threat of prosecution must hang over those who break the law in the second Trump administration. From @DavidOAtkins:
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Send more weapons to Ukraine and put more sanctions against Russia, urges @McFaul in an interview with @BobSHRowley for @monthly. It’s just really that simple. Weapons are the most important. washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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In “The Betrayal,” @ShapiroGlobal defines his thesis this way: “The story of the Senate’s rot is first and foremost the story of Mitch McConnell.” Reviewed here by @NormOrnstein. washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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Stop Calling Kamala Harris’s Anti-Price-Gouging Proposal Price Controls, writes @ZephyrTeachout in the Washington @Monthly. Her plan to control inflation is not some leftist plot. It’s rooted in mainstream American legal tradition—and sorely needed.
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Starting with Trump, It’s Time for a White Collar Crime Crackdown @jentaub for @monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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Some Sanders supporters need to be careful when they talk about moderate African-American Democrats. washingtonmonthly.com/2017/0…
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In an interview with @BobSHRowley, @McFaul says he finds it hard to believe that Putin’s going to blow up the planet with nuclear weapons because we send a bunch of ancient MiG-29s to Ukraine. washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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The price of leaving Trump in office until January 20, 2021 could be half a million lives, writes @BooMan23.
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One of Tom Cotton’s arguments against statehood is that we can’t trust the District’s voters to choose their own representatives. @Smartypants60 argues that Republicans don’t get to decide which votes matter.
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"I am growing increasingly intolerant of the more than 60 million voters who bought into this con job.” washingtonmonthly.com/2016/1…
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We’re saddened to announce that Charles Peters, the founder of the Washington @Monthly, known to friends and family as Charlie, died at home in Washington, D.C. on Thanksgiving Day at 96. @JamesFallows discusses his enduring legacy in the @Monthly. washingtonmonthly.com/2023/1…
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President Biden began his term signaling a no-malarkey approach to legislation: he would welcome bipartisanship if it offered itself, but he would not be constrained by it, writes @DavidOAtkins. But then something strange happened. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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Given What Is at Stake, Democrats Should Use the Word “Abortion,” writes @JulieZebrak. Vice President Kamala Harris understands it’s essential to use the word “abortion” rather than euphemisms
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And you can read, actually you must read, @Jonathanalter's account of how Jimmy Carter has kept him sane during the Trump years in @Monthly. 2/2
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Aristotle wrote that forensic rhetoric had three aspects—the logos, the ethos, and the pathos. On day one of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, @RepRaskin crushed all three, writes @Profepps. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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It’s a Biden Boom—and No One Has Noticed Yet washingtonmonthly.com/2021/1…
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If it turns out that Milley was merely reinforcing his colleagues’ allegiance to the executive branch’s own clear rules for nuclear decision making, he was not insubordinate, writes @petermshane. He was faithfully executing the law. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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"Despite the headlines, too many workers are not feeling the economic boom Trump describes," write @ChrisLu44 and @HarinContractor. This provides an opportunity for Democrats.
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President Biden should provide clear direction that cracking down on white collar crime is a priority, writes @jentaub. Tone from the top matters. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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#BREAKING: If Trump had listened to urgent warnings about #coronavirus from experts and advisers in January, the U.S. could have averted as much as 86% of the economic damage it's now facing, per a new analysis by @robshapiro, a former Commerce official. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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Collins is one of the members of Congress most responsible for the Postal Service’s devastation, writes @EricCortellessa. Long before Louis DeJoy started manipulating the #USPS, Collins worked to cripple the agency’s finances. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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Trump is the third Republican president in a row to follow a Democrat into office and then immediately balloon the deficit with tax cuts that disproportionately favor the rich. washingtonmonthly.com/2018/0…
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In a deep-red Iowa district that Trump won by 27 points, Democrat @JDScholten almost unseated @SteveKingIA in the 2018 midterms. How did he do it? By talking about the way corporate concentration is crushing farmers.
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Americans think federal bureaucracies are bloated. In reality, they are radically understaffed.
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Based on Incomes, Americans Are a Lot Better Off Under Biden Than Under Trump. @robshapiro on the Biden Boom.
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"U.S. democracy wasn’t set up to deal with a president openly behaving like a James Bond villain while being protected by a political party behaving more like a mafia than a civic institution," writes @DavidOAtkins. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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American soft power is unparalleled. Former Amb. Derek Shearer explains how the Biden administration upped the U.S. game with @secblinken @USAmbJapan @AmbassadogTeddy @USAmbIsrael @SecDebHaaland @LindaT_G
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To combat white collar crime, writes @jentaub, Attorney General Merrick Garland should make individual accountability a reality, not just words on paper. Deputy AG Lisa Monaco is well-positioned to help on that front. washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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Yes, Americans Are Better Off Under Biden | Washington Monthly washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0…
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Why We Should Rethink Voting Rights from the Ground Up washingtonmonthly.com/2021/0…
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In a deep-red Iowa district that Trump won by 27 points, Democrat @JDScholten almost unseated @SteveKingIA in the 2018 midterms. How did he do it? By talking about the way corporate concentration is crushing farmers. washingtonmonthly.com/magazi…
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The mothers of this country want sturdy governance, unwavering institutions, and law and order. What they absolutely don’t want is a revolution, writes @JulieZebrak. This works to Biden’s advantage over Sanders. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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America cannot count on a national contact tracing system, writes @elliervance. Instead, states should use tracing methods that have worked in the past in order to successfully track #COVID19.
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Ronald Reagan overcame a bad debate that triggered panic about his age. Here’s how Biden can do the same. @Billscher in the Washington @Monthly on last night's Democratic disaster.
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While personal enrichment is odious enough, it may be the flow of money to Steve Bannon’s political operations that prove to be more damaging to Trumpworld, writes @JillWineBanks. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/0…
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The Mondale I Knew. @HardballChris, Chris Matthews, was a Carter speechwriter and saw how the Minnesotan changed the vice presidency forever.
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The Justice Department can go after Thomas and Alito for their ethical transgressions. It's simple and powerful. @UCLA_Law professor Jonathan Zasloff explains.
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“Temperament Is the Great Separator.” As Harris said in the debate, Trump does not have a presidential temperament. But, as @Jonathanalter writes, we didn’t know the ease, good cheer, and presidential temperament she would bring to the stage.
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In high school, @AnatoleJenkins wanted to be an architect. Now, instead of physical structures, he's built a human coalition from the ground-up as National Director of States Organizing for Biden’s mostly virtual campaign. @zachharriss interviews him here. washingtonmonthly.com/2020/1…
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