This is a significant long-form backgrounder which reminded me of Ryan Lizza's famous article on Obama in 2008. Notable excerpts as regards the present:
...because their parents earn too little. Photo caption: Christina McKeigan, a divorced mother of three, earned $23,000 last year and was eligible for about half the maximum credit.Credit...Andrea Morales for The New York Times
"This time the system didn't work." In a provocative piece, @ElizabethDrewOH despairs that the impeachment clause in the Constitution has been broken beyond repair by Trump's defiance. https://t.co/ccBGVYJxIp
Democrats who've worked on trade deals for decades say they doubt that any other Republican president in foreseeable future wld support a deal like the USMCA. The USMCA is a deal tailor-made for organized labor and protectionist Democrats. https://t.co/ldaVvsMLWe#axiossneakpeek
This is *huge news*: Mitt Romney and Michael Bennet have the first ever bipartisan proposal to make the child tax credit fully refundable as part of a TCJA fix. https://t.co/dSmgP5qY02
Op-ed author James Kirchick is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age.”
Terrific column by Jamie Kirchick on the latest useful idiot, the new San Francisco D.A., Chesa Boudin. (very obvious who his Weather Underground terrorist parents named him after.)https://t.co/mdOikjKQOC
Yet another joke “Democrat” from Minnesota.
Vote @collinpeterson
and other corrupt DFL party hacks out.
Anyone who does not recognize that Trump is guilty is unfit to be in Congress.https://t.co/wKh3fLNWAf
Most read this week - China: book burnings threaten academic freedom.
"This dangerous new turn must be challenged and resisted by all of us who believe in the most basic tenants of freedom of expression." - PEN International President Jennifer Clement.https://t.co/IyuIRJXYzE
Rudy Giuliani has provided free personal legal advice to President Trump for the past 20 months. But his work was not included on the president's annual financial disclosure filed in May that requires such gifts to be publicly listed.https://t.co/Z7iCDTK5Av
cognitive rigidity is linked to ideological extremism, partisanship, & dogmatism across political & non-political ideologies#SocSciResearch https://t.co/AXwGetFWZK
Cenk Uygur said the genes of women who didn’t want to sleep with him are “flawed.” Bernie Sanders said his voice “desperately” belongs in Congress. Now everyone’s backtracking.
The arrest of García Luna is a damning sign that authorities, at least in the United States, are zeroing in on the pervasive corruption within the Mexican government that was prominently put on display during the US trail of El Chapo. https://t.co/lK9o735vRD
