State of Play

by Jesse Singal
Politics

Sahil Kapur’s rundown of the current situation in the fiscal cliff impasse/embarrassment is a very useful guide to the politics of the situation. The short version is (still) that Obama has all the leverage. (There are millions of cynical Democrats, of course, who are waiting for him to squander it.)

Also worth a look is this quick NPR piece looking at the prism of the cliff negotiations through the prism of, well, negotiation theory (though I wish the piece did more to tie the experts’ stories into the actual matter at hand).

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Jesse Singal

Jesse Singal is a former opinion writer for The Boston Globe and former web editor of the Washington Monthly. He is currently a master's student at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy. Follow him on Twitter at @jessesingal.