Last month,  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) made the rather hysterically funny comment that the current GOP resembles “‘The Office character Dwight Schrute, a power-hungry, mustard yellow shirt-wearing paper salesman who lives on a beet farm” (to quote Huffpost). Honestly, truth be told and full disclosure…I didn’t get the joke at first. I don’t watch The Office.…

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By Bill Albee I believe that Nancy Pelosi is the most qualified Democrat to analyze the political calculus on if and when to initiate impeachment hearings and when to hold the vote to impeach. I want her to think like Mitch. In my opinion, all members of the House have a constitutional duty to investigate…

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Check out this article over on The Atlantic‘s website, The End of the American Century by George Packer. In it, Packer looks at the decline and fall of the American empire. He uses as his vehicle the life and career of the late Richard Holbrooke, who negotiated the end of the Bosnian war. For him,…

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