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Jonathan Alter is a columnist for The Daily Beast and an analyst for MSNBC. He worked at Newsweek for 28 years as a senior editor and columnist. His most recent book, The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies, is now available in paperback.
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Dems Can Save Voting by Restoring the Mr. Smith Filibuster
TALK IT OUTA reckoning is coming: They don’t want the Senate to fiddle while democracy burns.

Biden’s First 100 Days Will Be the Biggest Since FDR’s
A NEW NEW DEALEven before being sworn in, Biden had devoted a series of speeches to his ambitious plans. When the action begins, it will be a tonic, as it was in 1933.

Democrats Must Punish the House GOP’s ‘Seditious Seventeen’
CLOSE THE ‘TOUGHNESS GAP’Of the 126 Republican House members who signed that brief, 17 essentially agreed to invalidate their own votes. So invalidate them.

Today: Remind an Undecided Voter About Trump’s 4 Worst Acts
IN CASE YOU’D FORGOTTEN…Public health menace. Dangerous autocrat. Racist demagogue. Incompetent whiner. It’s time to send him home for good.

Carter Has Always Been Odd Man Out in the Presidents’ Club
EXCERPTThe unspoken rule among former presidents is that they keep silent on the actions of their successors. Carter has never felt bound by this.

It’s Time To Recruit, Train and Supply a COVID Testing Army
‘ACTION NOW’If Trump had acted in the winter of 2020 the way FDR did in the winter of 1933, we wouldn’t be in this predicament.

Here’s How to Make Trump Pay for His Deadly Lost Months
STICK IT TO HIMTrump needs to be tarred with his lack of preparedness the way “the emails” were stuck to Clinton, “the hostages” to Carter, “the pardon” to Ford, and “Hoovervilles” to Hoover.

What Obama Saw in Biden
OLD SHOEWith Joe, familiarity breeds not contempt, but respect and even love.

20 Tough Questions Dems Must Force Trump’s Lawyers to Answer
INSIDE THE 'STARR' CHAMBERThe next phase of this trial: question time. Here are the pointed questions the Democrats ought to ask Starr, Dershowitz, Bondi, and company.

The People Speak: President Trump Is No King
POPULAR VERDICTIn a very real constitutional sense, the people declared Wednesday that it’s not OK for a president to solicit a foreign power to smear a political rival.
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