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Tag: Congress

  • FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC? Congress Performs for AIPAC While America Waits

    There is something deeply revealing about watching Washington discover urgency whenever the political interests of a foreign ally are involved. Housing can remain unaffordable. Americans can postpone medical care because they cannot afford it. Families can fall behind on rent.…

  • 20th Century Politics for a 21st Century World

    Many of the institutions and rules still shaping modern life were created between 1913 and 1935, during an era built around industrial banking, early mass media, paper bureaucracy, slower markets, and a very different public reality. Key 20th Century Institutions and…

  • Congressional Kayfabe: When Congress Turns Governance Into Wrestling

    Congress does not always behave like a governing body. Sometimes, it behaves like old-school professional wrestling: entrances, personas, slogans, heroes, villains, staged rivalries, dramatic hearings, town hall confrontations, viral insults, crowd reactions, catchphrases, and media clips designed to travel farther…