wait for it
In the 2020 primaries, no one quibbled with Klobuchar, Harris, Gillibrand, or Warren’s credentials. They just said there was something about them that didn’t quite sit right.
Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D. is a presidential historian and Senior Fellow at the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She is also the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, now out in paperback, and the forthcoming book An Honest Man: The Inimitable Presidency of John Adams. She can be followed on Twitter @lmchervinsky
THE TIES THAT BIND
The Jan. 6 committee hearings show that unless American citizens operate out of a shared sense of morality, the system is broken.
GOOD CALL
By refusing executive privilege, President Biden is adhering to the precedent set by Washington and helping restore congressional oversight.
NICE LADY
It’s nice we study women’s history in March, but it means nothing if women must remain quiet or hold themselves to different standards than men in order to succeed in government.