by jpitney | Jul 31, 2022 | Congress, Debate, Deliberation, Senate
Trent Lott and Tom Daschle at The Hill: First, the Senate should return to old norms for considering legislation. Filibusters, which date back to America’s earliest days, grew more common in the 19th and 20th centuries, prompting the Senate to adopt rules to end...
by jpitney | Jul 30, 2022 | Leadership
At Noema, Nathan Gardels writes about Henry Kissinger’s reflection on Lee Kuan Yew. In the heyday of post-colonialism in 1963, Lee Kuan Yew sought to safeguard tiny Singapore’s newfound independence from Great Britain by proposing a federation with Malaysia....
by jpitney | Jul 29, 2022 | Civility, Public Opinion
From the Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service With just months to go until the fall’s midterm elections, voters feel strongly that the country is headed in the wrong direction. Fueled by self-segregation into like minded communities, Americans...
by jpitney | Jul 28, 2022 | Business, China, Elections, Public Opinion
Caitlin Oprysko at Politico on Bruce Mehlman (P’21 P’25): MEHLMAN’S LATEST: Mehlman Castagnetti Rosen & Thomas’ Bruce Mehlman is out with his latest slide deck, which zeroes in backlash threatening to upend four different trends in politics and policy....
by jpitney | Jul 27, 2022 | Civility, Elections
🚨🚨 #PrinciplesFirst alert:@RepDeanPhillips puts principle before party; takes DCCC to task over its signal boosting of election deniers: “If this institution stands a chance of doing its work the ways our founders intended, we need people of civility & decency on...
