epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:Michael Bennet [Bennet, Michael]

VI. Shark Jaws Sometimes, late at night, looking out the window at the well-tended and deceptively placid grounds of Lower Senate Park, I do some math. The exercise goes like ...

epub |eng | | Author:Alan Hirsch

Two tickets for Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, January 14–15, 1999. The Republicans had prevailed in the House, but polls gave them no cause to gloat. The public continued to oppose ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Jared Cohen [Cohen, Jared]

The Dying President Roosevelt was a sick and dying man when he ran for a fourth term in 1944. He must have had some sense of this as early as ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Jared

The Dying President Roosevelt was a sick and dying man when he ran for a fourth term in 1944. He must have had some sense of this as early as ...

epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Anna Palmer

* * * — That week conservative Republicans went into a closed party meeting in the Capitol and urged leaders to adopt a hard-line proposal penned by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Fergus M. Bordewich

CHAPTER 16 A Southern Position I feel ashamed of the body to which I belong. —Benjamin Goodhue, June 1790 By June, the Pennsylvanians were losing their once-smug self-confidence, having realized ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-02 | Author:Beattie, Kirk [Beattie, Kirk]

“On a lot of this stuff, the difference between Israelis and Palestinians, it’s like cowboys and Indians. You’re always going to root for the cowboys.” —former, longtime staffer for a ...

epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Cory Booker

So let us not be petty when our cause is great. Let us not quarrel amongst ourselves when our Nation’s future is at stake. —JOHN F. KENNEDY In the early ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-20 | Author:Lawrence Lessig [Lessig, Lawrence]

1. Making Government Small When Al Gore was vice president, his policy team had a proposal to deregulate the Internet. As a “network of networks,” the Internet lives atop other ...

epub |eng, eng | 2013-03-18 | Author:David Marr

We can’t stop people drinking, we can’t stop people gambling, we can’t stop people having substance problems, we can’t stop people from making mistakes … Under Abbott, the unemployed had ...

epub |eng | 2015-06-01 | Author:Dominic Tierney [Tierney, Dominic]

Abdul Sattar Abu Risha pictured in 2007 (Curt Cashour, U.S. Army photo) The Awakening removed the majority of Sunni insurgents from the battlefield and broke the cycle of violence. The ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Bernie Sanders [Sanders, Bernie]

(Mr. LEVIN assumed the Chair.) Mr. SANDERS. If these tax breaks for the wealthiest people are extended for two years, there is a strong likelihood they will be extended for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Draper

CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Winning Message On the morning of April 7, 1965, the chairman of the Democratic Study Group, Congressman Frank Thompson of New Jersey, sent out a memo to ...

mobi |eng | 2010-04-20 | Author:Elizabeth George

ISABELLE FIELDED A phone call from AC Hillier as they crossed the river, heading up Victoria Embankment to avoid Parliament Square. Previously, she’d spoken only to the AC’s secretary, grateful ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Barney Frank [Frank, Barney]

8 DEFENDING CLINTON Ever since 1993, I’d been defending both Clintons from Republican attacks on their integrity. Serving on the Financial Services Committee, I observed the investigation into the Clintons’ ...