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  1. Unsanitized: The Precarious State Unemployment Systems
    12 Dec 2020 … Plus, another bipartisan gang pitching a probably fruitless deal. Continue reading
  2. Trump’s New Mantra: Herd Immunity
    10 Oct 2020 … The White House has abandoned the idea of controlling the virus and instead is openly embracing the idea of “herd immunity.” Continue reading
  3. Judgement Call: The Nomination of Janice Rogers Brown; The Economist’s Bill Emmott; Faith and the Law; Polio ** FILE ** California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown smiles during a court session in San Francisco in this May 27, 2003 file photo. A sharecropper's daughter from the conservative South, Brown is one of two appeals court nominees being debated in the Senate. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
    10 Oct 2003 … The bitter battle over President Bush's nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a conversation with the man at the helm of The Economist, and the political effects of piety in government. Continue reading
  4. Unsanitized: What’s In the Last Chance for COVID Relief Image by Karolina Grabowska for Pexels
    12 Dec 2020 … This article is adapted from Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report put out by The American Prospect. You can find the original publication here. First Response We are now four days away from a self-imposed Congressional deadline to pass an omnibus spending package Continue reading
  5. Who Owns Law and Order?
    9 Sep 2020 … Why is Trump so hell-bent on reelection? He has made it clear he doesn’t particularly like the job. Continue reading
  6. The Looking Glass World of the White House
    11 Nov 2020 … President-Elect Joe Biden is now 5.6 million votes ahead of Trump in the popular vote, with 50.9% of the vote to Trump’s 47.3%. And yet, Trump continues to maintain he won the election. Continue reading
  7. Coronavirus Denial Syndrome
    11 Nov 2020 … As Trump continues to claim, against all evidence, that he won the election, he has refused to begin the process of transition to a Biden presidency. Continue reading
  8. Unsanitized: The Dealmakers Don’t Want to Make a Deal
    12 Dec 2020 … The Republicans are running out the clock. They have offered up increasingly untenable proposals in a bid to pin the responsibility for no deal on the Democrats. Continue reading
  9. The First Veto
    1 Jan 2021 … Congress began the new year by repassing the National Defense Authorization Act over Trump’s veto, finding the two-thirds majority it needed to override one of Trump’s vetoes for the first time. Continue reading
  10. Unsanitized: Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue The 2012 Capitol Christmas Tree is seen after Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) lit it up in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … Congress, after nine months of dithering, passed a COVID relief bill, attached to a year-end omnibus that funds the government until next September. Into all this walks Donald Trump. Continue reading