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The Cabinet
December 17, 2020
Walter Shapiro
Give Joe Biden a Break
Sure, some of his Cabinet choices have been puzzling. But what’s most important right now is that Biden feels comfortable with the people in his administration.
December 14, 2020
Morgan Baskin
HUD Deserves Better Than Marcia Fudge
The chronic neglect of the nation’s housing agency continues with Joe Biden’s decision to tap an inexperienced Ohio lawmaker as its leader.
December 11, 2020
Alex Pareene
Is Joe Biden Just Being Stubborn?
A theory about his strangest nominees and appointments
December 10, 2020
Matt Ford
Biden Is Finding New and Inexplicable Ways to Screw Up His Cabinet Picks
Who says the president-elect isn’t a political innovator?
December 3, 2020
Osita Nwanevu
Joe Biden’s Cabinet Is a Lost Cause for the Left
It’s time for insurgents to make a break from the Democratic establishment and hone America’s future outside the halls of power.
November 18, 2020
Podcast
The Politics of Everything
Fantasizing About Joe Biden’s Cabinet
The best picks you’ve never heard of
November 18, 2020
Podcast
Transcript: Joe Biden’s Cabinet
November 16, 2020
Sam Adler-Bell
The Brewing Democratic Fight Over Biden’s Cabinet
The president-elect might be willing to compromise with Mitch McConnell on his Cabinet picks. Can liberals force him to play hardball?
June 5, 2020
Matt Ford
This Is a Good Moment to Hear Joe Biden’s Thoughts on Attorneys General
With the Justice Department in full collapse, the presumptive nominee could spark a timely discussion about its future leadership.
June 12, 2017
Brian Beutler
Did Donald Trump just publicly humiliate his entire cabinet because he worries the end is near?
July 25, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Original Manuscripts of Two of the World's Most Famous Poems
July 23, 2014
Hillary Kelly
This Conversation Between Raymond Chandler and Ian Fleming Was Recorded the Last Time The Two Friends Ever Met
July 22, 2014
Hillary Kelly
The Article That Told the World About the Holocaust
Varian Fry's landmark report, "The Massacre of the Jews"
July 18, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Virginia Woolf's Belated Obituary for Jane Austen
What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?
July 16, 2014
Hillary Kelly
63 Years Ago, We Knew That 'The Catcher in the Rye' Was Insufferable and Overrated
July 14, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Edith Wharton's Steamy, Sexy, Hot-Weather Novella
This novel was the '50 Shades of Gray' of 1916.
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