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January 30, 2021

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The Republican Retreat From Governance

The direction of conservative “thought” since Trump left office suggests that the party’s future is limited to brutal voter suppression and culture-war conflict.

By Katelyn Burns

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The Senate Is Failing

Nobody does more to dismember the hollow mythology of the “world’s greatest deliberative body” than that body’s members.

By Matt Ford

	Fine, Keep the Filibuster. Kill the 60-Vote Requirement Instead. How to make the Senate functional without forcing Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin to go back on their word By Alex Pareene

	The D.C. Statehood Debate Is Coming, Like It or Not The most important liberal advocacy organizations—and a broader swath of the public—are pushing to make the District of Columbia the fifty-first state.By Osita Nwanevu

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	Republicans Don’t Care About “Unity” And the press shouldn’t pretend they do. By Alex Shephard

	How Biden Can Achieve a Russian Restoration With Putinism under assault, the president can forge a new path by rejecting regime change and heavy-handed democracy promotion in favor of interconnected diplomacy. By Michael Kimmage

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