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2020 galvanized democracy reforms, but more are needed | Opinion Updated Dec 27, 2020; By Morton Kondracke If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress — and you, too — should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are bad-news/good-news books about America’s troubled and deeply divided society, with ideas on how t...

If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress -- and you, too -- should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are bad-news/good-news books about America’s troubled and deeply divided society, with ideas on how to repair it. Zakaria looks forward to the challenges of new pandemics, runaway technology, worsening inequalit...

Much about how we prevent this in the future. what do we do about 2020? mitch mcconnell is blocking any election security act that would help prevent russian or foreign interference in the election of 2020 and beyond. there are those things to answer and for the judiciary, the issue of impeachment. >> there was a meeting of all house democrats after both of the hearings, some members left it saying it sounded as though naps mo nancy pelosi moved closer to the impeachment process. >> i let the speaker speak for herself, but you see a growing number of democrats who are convinced that we should ...

That's affecting his decision making as president of this country. >> in your experience on the intelligence committee, is that what you would expect given the evidence that you read in the mueller report? >> yeah, i think that it is very much an open question. unfortunately we didn't get a resolution to that today, but it's something americans deserve to know. >> where are do you hope the intelligence committee is able to go after this. >> there are still many issues on counter intelligence and figures out how deeply russia had its hooks in our political system and in particular, people in po...

Center for justice says still, more needs to be done. >> the fact of the matter is running elections cost money. if we're going to do it right, i believe we have to spend a few hundred million dollars a year to protect our elections. that is less than the pentagon recently spent anywhere in military, i think we can do it to ensure the elections. >> a confident that the system is safe? >> i'm feeling more confident than in the past. but this will be forever a vigilant activity of ours. question about how sophisticated defenses are, there are hackers out there that could find a way around it. >>...