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Point & counterpoint | Healing America: Karen Dolan - Beneath division lie common goals Karen Dolan FacebookTwitterEmail Biden has promised to bring a divided electorate together. Is this even possible? Social divisions may take a generation to heal. But with enough political will, the answer on policy questions should be a resounding yes. Despite our divisions, progressive responses to bread and butter issues enjoy broad, bipartisan support. Majority support exists for everything from cash relief payments during the COVID-19 crisis to increasing the minimum wage and expanding health care. Th...

Point & counterpoint | Healing America: Iain Murray - Political realignment provides hope for less-polarized future Iain Murray FacebookTwitterEmail America seems deeply divided. The House of Representatives is split down the middle between Democrats and Republicans. Half the country, as in 2016, appears to believe the presidential election was stolen from their preferred candidate. It appears as if polarization is here to stay. Or, maybe not. A careful look at underlying shifts in support among the parties suggests that America is in the middle of a political realignment. The process has yet...

Commentary: Matthew Thompson -Unemployment system dangerously outdated Matthew Thompson FacebookTwitterEmail When you think of states calling in the National Guard, you might imagine rescuing people from floods or providing emergency relief. But this summer, Washington state had to call in 54 National Guard troops to help them investigate cybercriminals who targeted the state’s COVID-19 relief funds. Washington wasn’t the only state to suffer, either — the problem is widespread and ongoing, affecting almost every state in the nation. Congress recently approved an 11-week extension of $3...

Commentary: J. Mark Powell - The bloody past of nation's Capitol J. Mark Powell FacebookTwitterEmail ‘We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.” Those words, from former Massachusetts Sen. Rufus Choate, are inscribed on the wall of the U.S. Capitol — the same walls desecrated by rioters who ransacked the building. For many Americans, seeing such acts of violence and vandalism occurring in the Capitol was something unimaginable. In fact, our civic “temple” has a surprisingly bloody history. It was still under construction when British ...

Commentary: Llewellyn King - Capitol enshrines all the best of our aspirations Llewellyn King FacebookTwitterEmail Cry, the beloved building. I have been lucky and have walked the halls of the Houses of Parliament in London, visited the Elysée Palace in Paris, the Bundestag in Berlin and the Kremlin in Moscow. But it is the Capitol, the building on a hill in Washington, that fills me with awe but it isn’t awesome or frightening, and doesn’t exalt in power. The Capitol is at once romantic, imposing and egalitarian. Ever since I first set foot on Capitol Hill, the building has been for me,...