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  • War & Peace
    On Shedding an Obsolete Past
    March 11, 2021
    | Andrew Bacevich
    Biden Defers to the Blob
  • Democracy & Government
    The Pentagon, First, Last, and Always
    March 2, 2021
    | Mandy Smithberger

    Focusing on the wrong threats, including a new Cold War with China, is the last thing we can afford now.

  • War & Peace
    Demilitarizing Our Democracy
    January 28, 2021
    | William D. Hartung and Mandy Smithberger
    How the National Security State Has Come to Dominate a "Civilian" Government
  • Democracy & Government
    The Lucrative Afterlife of a Trump Official
    December 2, 2020
    | Jonathan Guyer
    Trump’s former appointees are profiting from their time in the White House—H.R. McMaster most of all.
  • Letters From an American
    GOP: Get With The Program
    November 24, 2020

    Michigan’s certification of its election results pushed the General Services Administration, and some of the GOP itself, to call for the beginning of the transition process.

  • Letters From an American
    Coronavirus Denial Syndrome
    November 14, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    And election denial too.
  • Letters From an American
    Chaos from Trump. Calm from Biden
    November 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today President-Elect Joe Biden named his chief of staff. He has picked Ronald A. Klain, 59, a veteran Democratic operative with degrees from Georgetown and Harvard Law School, who has worked in and around Washington, D.C., since 1987, when he clerked for Supreme Court Justice Byron White. Klain was Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president.

  • Letters From an American
    Trump's $750 Tax Payment Isn't the Only Number in This Story
    September 28, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    But it is a very good place to start.
  • Letters From an American
    “At This Point It’s Country Over Party”
    September 18, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Olivia Troye, the former top homeland security aide to Vice President Mike Pence
  • Letters From an American
    So Much Spin. How Many Plates Can the President Keep in the Air?
    June 30, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    If you feel overwhelmed, there is good reason. We are currently in the midst of a number of storylines, any one of which would define any other administration. And the news comes so fast you can barely figure out who the players are before there’s another twist: There’s Russia and the bounties on soldiers, “white power” retweets, and Mike Pence actually wearing a mask.



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