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The White House Correspondents' Dinner: When I Was 'Important'
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Harris Campaign Facing "Wall of Lava"
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2Way: A 2024 Campaign Coverage Winner
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That Time James Carville Kicked Our Ass, Then Took Us to Dinner Afterwards
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Institutionalizing Distrust Between Lawmakers and Staff
The slippery slope toward Capitol Hill workplace anarchy
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The White House Correspondents' Dinner: When I Was 'Important'
And always valet your trashed pick-up truck for maximum impact
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CNBC's Steve Liesman on his Grateful Dead shows, bands, and music projects
Recent economic turmoil helped 'surface' this 2014 Medium interview that remains interesting and insightful a decade later
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Remembering Tim Curran
Senate race scuttlebutt and swapping Grateful Dead tapes at the NRSC, back in the day
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DOGE and GOP Hill Angst
What happens after Musk's algorithms pry into the Pentagon fiscal sinkhole? Would Trump throw GOP lawmakers under the bus to achieve his DOGE goals?
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Reagan's 1980 GOP > Trump's 2025 GOP
Perspective on the 40+ year transformation; Q and A with longtime Simi Valley, CA Reagan Foundation leader John Heubusch; The Wire and UFC as metaphors…
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Back in DC After Campaign Loss?... 4 Basics to Getting Back Out There
The truth about Washington: You're always working for yourself
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2Way: A 2024 Campaign Coverage Winner
With a diversity of voices, objective commentary, informed analysis and ethos of civil discourse, Mark Halperin's 2Way "Morning Meeting" a 2024 winner
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On Decamping to Nantucket for the Election
Campaign staff respect, candidates win and lose on their own, thoughts from Nate Silver, Bill Maher, Doug Sosnik
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