To quote Donald Fagen, it looks like Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz “just got the goodbye look.” The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee said she will resign this week in the aftermath of the release of thousands of embarrassing internal email exchanges among Democratic officials. The episode had pitched the party into […]
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A Taxing Effort
Will Congress actually pass carbon-pricing legislation by December 31, 2017? This ambitious goal is not as far-fetched as it may seem—especially if Donald Trump damages the Republican Party so severely that the GOP actually loses both houses of Congress (also not a far-fetched prospect). Having said that, the final version of a carbon-pricing bill may […]
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A Reminder of the Recent Past From a Member of the DNC
The former mayor of Minneapolis just gave a stirring defense of Hillary Clinton.
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Russians Compromise the DNC, Steal Trump Files
It appears that Russian intelligence services have penetrated the Democratic National Committee’s computer systems. I think they came away with a lot more information than E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy ever did. According to the reporting, one group of Russian spies has been reading email and chat traffic at the DNC for about […]
