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Nov- 2021 -10 NovemberBlog
Notes from the Third Sub-Basement: High Anxiety
It is hard to please Democrats. President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer and their teams worked for months to get…
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5 NovemberMember Briefings
The Stakes are Too High to Draw the Wrong Conclusions About Tuesday’s Elections
This Times editorial board piece arguing Tuesday showed that Dems don’t want big progressive ideas ignores one small fact: The…
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5 NovemberMember Briefings
The Stakes are Too High to Draw the Wrong Conclusions About Tuesday\’s Elections
This Times editorial board piece arguing Tuesday showed that Dems don\’t want big progressive ideas ignores one small fact: The…
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3 NovemberMember Briefings
NOTES FROM THE THIRD SUB-BASEMENT: ELECTION HANGOVER EDITION
Post-election analysis is bad enough following a presidential election or a mid-term when there is a ton of data to…
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Oct- 2021 -29 OctoberMember Briefings
Letter from the Third Sub-basement: Halloween Edition
So, here we are at the end of another week. What does it mean? Well, what does any of it…
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27 OctoberMember Briefings
If BBB Passes, Grit Your Teeth and Give Manchin (and Sinema) Some Credit
This begins regular members-only reports on what we are seeing and hearing inside Washington on domestic and international issues currently…
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1 OctoberBlog
The Media Has Missed the Story: Biden and the Dems are on the Verge of Another Major Success.
The New York Times does it again: “House Delays Vote on Infrastructure Bill as Democrats Feud.” On the homepage they…
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Sep- 2021 -17 SeptemberBlog
How Do We Win the War Here at Home?
With every passing day, it looks less like we have one nation divided by differing political beliefs and more like…
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May- 2021 -17 MayBlog
In the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Simplistic Analyses are the Enemy
In an effort to combat the “four legs good, two legs bad” oversimplifications that dominate the commentary on the Israel-Palestine…
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Jan- 2021 -9 JanuaryBlog
A Lot Had to Go Wrong to Lead to This Week’s Attempted Coup
If the (erroneous) Office of Legal Counsel memo saying president’s can’t be indicted for crimes while in office had not…
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8 JanuaryBlog
A Lot Had to Go Wrong to Lead to This Week\’s Attempted Coup
If the (erroneous) Office of Legal Counsel memo saying president\’s can\’t be indicted for crimes while in office had not…
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Nov- 2020 -7 NovemberBlog
Why the Victory of Biden and Harris is So Moving
I have spent some time now, wondering why I have had such a profound emotional reaction to Joe Biden and…
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Oct- 2020 -1 OctoberBlog
America’s Devastating Cultural Depression: The Time for Action is Now
Among our many looming challenges is one that has not gotten sufficient attention. The United States is in the midst…
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1 OctoberBlog
America\’s Devastating Cultural Depression: The Time for Action is Now
Among our many looming challenges is one that has not gotten sufficient attention. The United States is in the midst…
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Sep- 2020 -19 SeptemberBlog
Time for Dems to Get Off Their Fainting Couches
Those of you waking up this morning to a war for the soul of the American judiciary have not been…
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Aug- 2020 -1 AugustBlog
The COVID Disaster is Not an Act of God, It’s a Crime
Make sure to understand that the disastrous leadership failure on COVID has actually consisted of a series of equally disastrous…
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1 AugustBlog
The COVID Disaster is Not an Act of God, It\’s a Crime
Make sure to understand that the disastrous leadership failure on COVID has actually consisted of a series of equally disastrous…
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Jul- 2020 -11 JulyBlog
Justice in America is Dead
Justice in America is dead. We used to talk about damage to it. We used to remark with each setback…
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May- 2020 -8 MayBlog
Lost at a Crossroads in History
I just don’t get the sense we have fully grasped the profundity of what is happening all around us. History…
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Apr- 2020 -9 AprilBlog
This Is Not Just a Public Heatlh Crisis, It’s an Inequality Crisis
No denying that this is a public health crisis on top of (and made much worse by) an inequality crisis.…
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