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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on infrastructure at the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo

Did legislative sausage-making hurt President Biden?

John Hudak, Elaine Kamarck, and Selene Swanson

Monday, December 13, 2021

Participants in the "Ride for Pride" event stand on the back of their pickup truck as they speak to an assembled crowd during the impromptu event to show their support the Confederate flag in Brandon, Hillsborough County, June 26, 2015. Several hundred people took part in the event. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

How seriously should we take talk of US state secession?

William G. Gale and Darrell M. West

Monday, December 13, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the crisis in Afghanistan during a speech in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis

What Americans still want from government reform: A fall 2021 update

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election results by the U.S. Congress, in Washington, U.S, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Jim Bourg/File Photo

Trump’s judicial campaign to upend the 2020 election: A failure, but not a wipe-out

Russell Wheeler

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

tax forms

The House Democrats’ state and local tax proposal: Bad policy and bad politics

William A. Galston

Monday, November 29, 2021

Joe Biden at desk

Biden’s confirmations progress at the 300-day mark

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A marine, who had been deployed to Afghanistan, hugs his mother as he returns to U.S. Marine Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California, U.S., October 3, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Anger, betrayal, and humiliation: how veterans feel about the withdrawal from Afghanistan

William A. Galston

Friday, November 12, 2021

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election night party at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Trump didn’t invent racism; racism invented Trump and other elected hopefuls

Friday, November 5, 2021

Protesters march during a brief rally after the sentencing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis policeman found guilty of killing George Floyd, a Black man, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. June 25, 2021. REUTERS/Eric Miller

Message from Minneapolis: Reform the police but don’t defund them

William A. Galston

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin speaks during his election night party at a hotel in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S., November 3, 2021. REUTERS/ Jonathan Ernst TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

5 lessons from election night 2021

Wednesday, November 3, 2021