An insider account that answers many questions about this White House, but leaves some questions remaining — There’re some people who love the campaign tell-all. Boys on the Bus is terrific; What it Takes is even better. I’m all for a Hunter Thompson classic, but that’s not me. I love the peak inside the White House. I want to know who spilled tea in the Oval Office. …

Original interviews reveal unprecedented obstruction, cyber security concerns, and social media worries affected the transfer of power — As rioters stormed the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, thousands of volunteers were at home helping get the Biden-Harris administration ready to take power two weeks later. Through countless investigations and on-going court cases, we now know much about the planning for January 6th and its ultimate failure to interrupt…

Citizens Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty don’t share everything in common — There’s a new group in town, some are saying, spreading a message of faith, discovery, and CFO services (read Jack Jenkins’ really good article in Religion News for more). This rhetoric soars until it crashes into a field of certified public accounting rules and the realities of local organizing. Citizens…

New chapters are forming, but not where it matters most for 2024 — There’s been a lot hay made lately about Moms for Liberty — the group formed in 2021 to oppose school mask mandates and other pandemic precautions. …

Interviews reveal much about environmental policy making — I couldn’t be more excited for the new Obama Oral History project at Columbia University. I’ve been waiting…maybe the only one…for these interviews to be released, and four years has felt like a very long time since it was first announced. …

The Heritage Foundation’s plan to overhaul the federal government just won’t work — The prospect of hiring 4,000 new employees in under three months would make any human resource officer’s head spin. Multiply that by five and you’re heading for real trouble. Such is the plan offered last week to the country’s next conservative President by the DC think tank, the Heritage Foundation…

New Heritage Foundation report seems to say so — This week, we get a another peak at the Heritage Foundation’s latest iteration of the Mandate for Leadership, the conservative think tank’s regular report advising on the next presidential transition. The more that comes out of this latest effort to shape the next administration, the more it all sounds so…

I’ve been waiting four seasons for this sub-plot — My eyes lit up when Shiv Roy let it slip to her brothers that she’d been talking to a “transition” early in episode 1 of the season premier of HBO’s Succession. And not to any transition team, to the Jimenez’s transition team, maybe the front-running Democratic candidate? It’s really…

The conservative movement’s new catch phrase you shouldn’t ignore — This week, when the DC think tank, the Heritage Foundation, announced its plans for a conservative White House win in 2024, it all sounded so familiar. Heritage hadn’t even changed the name of the policy report it writes before each election: Mandate for Leadership. The first edition — a 3,000…