2/20/2025

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Can Trump Lift the Fog of War? [[link removed]] February 20, 2025

Things are popping so fast in Washington right now, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed.

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Polling News & Notes

More Democrats Favor Party Moderation [[link removed]] February 20, 2025

Just three months after Republicans dominated the 2024 elections, a new Gallup poll found a plurality of Democrats want to see their party moderate, or make some changes following their losses.

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On The Air

US Inflation Heating Up Is A ‘Warning Sign’ For The Economy: Rove [[link removed]] February 12, 2025

Former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove reacts to Tulsi Gabbard being confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence on ‘Varney & Co.’

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This Week's Recommended Readings

The American Betrayal of Ukraine Begins [[link removed]] February 19, 2025 Jim Geraghty | National Review

On the menu today: Regarding the war, President Donald Trump says to the Ukrainians, “You should have never started it!” Somewhere in Moscow, Vladimir Putin must be grinning from ear to ear.

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A Trumpian Budgetary Fog [[link removed]] February 13, 2025 James C. Capretta | AEI

There are three arenas where consequential new policies are in play, and it remains possible within each for widely varied budgetary effects to emerge.

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Dynamic Scoring: A Progress Report on Why, When, and How [[link removed]] January 2025 Douglas W. Elmendorf, R. Glenn Hubbard & Heidi L. Williams | National Bureau of Economic Research

At the start of this week, Marco Rubio was proud to announce that his first foreign tour as secretary of state had already yielded positive results: The president of Panama said that his country would not renew its participation in China’s infrastructure loan program, known as the Belt and Road Initiative, and could even end its dependence on the Chinese program early.

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This week's Recommended Podcast

We’re Releasing Dangerous Terrorists. . . and We Accept the Price’ [[link removed]] Bari Weiss | The Free Press

I’m sure you remember the images of Kfir and Ariel Bibas.

They were just nine months and four years old when they were kidnapped by Hamas along with their mother, Shiri, on October 7, 2023.

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