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Cutest couple, class clown and a competitive year for D.C. superlatives “The rolling crises did, however, have a clarifying effect on the political scene,” writes Michelle Cottle, a member of the New York Times editorial board. “Some players rose to meet the moment. Others sank, and there was no bottom.” (Illustration by The New York Times) Written By 30th Dec 2020 This year was a soul-crushing hellscape of a dumpster fire. For sanity’s sake, large chunks of it should be repressed as soon as possible. The rolling crises did, however, have a clarifying effect on the political scene...

Trump's eye-for-an-eye endgame Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Fresh panic abounds in Washington, D.C., after reports surfaced of President Trump huddling with his most unhinged loyalists this weekend and spitballing a series of bananas ideas like impounding voting machines for inspection, appointing the profoundly brain-wormed Sidney Powell as some kind of special counsel to investigate election fraud, and even declaring martial law so the military can hold new elections in the critical swing states won by President-elect Joe Biden. As alarming as this ...

The ‘Trump bump’ didn’t last. But the ‘Biden bull’ will transform the American economy Tim Mullaney © Provided by The Independent Our new quadrennial game seems to be arguing over credit when stocks surge after an election. How fun! In 2016, Donald Trump claimed responsibility for a rally that had begun in February, because the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index rose 5 percent in the month after his election. Weird as it may have been, the “Trump Bump” theory was born. Schadenfreude is fair play: The S&P is up 10.9 percent since the day before the 2020 electio...

I think there's a sense that doing something and having it fail is better than simply doing nothing. if they have a majority, they've been saying for eight years, seven years, they're going to repeal this law and then they do nothing about it. that's potentially more dangerous for that senate majority than taking a vote on thing like this and having it fail. look, i think the overall dynamic here with the president is quickly devolving into a nightmare scenario. i think instead of talking about -- when this came in, they were talking about infrastructure. chuck schumer was saying, look, we're ...

President's mind out to the universe. the importance of president's access to social media has divided his supporters. >> this obsession with covering everything on twitter and little -- >> that's his preferred method of communication with the american people. >> that's not true. >> i think social media for the president is extremely important. it gives him the ability to speak directly to the people without the bisz of the media filtering those communications. at this point he has over 100 plus billion contacts through social media on all those platforms. i think it's an important tool for hi...