Biden told Elizabeth Warren that he ‘got votes’ for her consumer agency creation. No one can remember the specifics.
Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim is the co-founder of Drop Site News, and the author of We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to AOC, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement.
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Looking at The Dark Side
In her new book, New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer chronicles the Bush administration’s embrace of torture and secrecy in the War on Terror.
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PART-ing Shots
This February in North Carolina, George W. Bush told a giddy crowd, “I’m here to talk about an issue that is going to be an interesting experience in dealing with the Congress [laughter]. And that is Social Security — formerly known as the third rail of American politics [laughter]. That meant, if you touched it, […]
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MAS Protest
When Bolivia’s interim president, Eduardo Rodriguez, announced on June 9 that he would hold new congressional and presidential elections within six months, it was widely portrayed as the end of a month-long crisis that nearly spurred a civil war. But the political divisions besetting Bolivia didn’t begin this year — and they’re not likely to […]