Hur Was Right: Biden Tapes Expose the Men Who Guarded the Myth

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The recordings come from Joe Biden’s conversations with Mark Zwonitzer, the ghostwriter of his 2017 memoir, “Promise Me, Dad.” Roughly 70 hours were released by the Oversight Project after a long public-records battle. They contain the sort of pauses and lapses that Washington spent years teaching Americans not to notice. “I’ll think of his name,” Biden said during an April 2017 conversation after forgetting two economic advisers. “I should write the names down because I keep forgetting them.” Zwonitzer eventually supplied one of the names: Alan Krueger, a prominent White House economist. Elsewhere, Biden struggled to recall the name of

Trump Forces a Choice Between Tradition and Power

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In a pair of Sunday posts, President Trump told Senate Majority Leader John Thune to keep the Senate in Washington until Republicans pass the SAVE America Act. Better yet, he said, they should end the filibuster and use their majority while they still have one. “John Thune should not allow the United States Senate to ‘leave town’ until it passes The Save America Act or, far better still, TERMINATES THE FILIBUSTER,” Trump wrote in a statement shared by Trump War Room. It was vintage Trump. Urgent, impatient and entirely uninterested in the Senate’s affection for its own traditions. The president

Alaska Asks 3,000 Voters: Wait, Who Are You Again?

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Something strange happened in Juneau this summer. More than 3,000 Alaskans got a letter from the state asking a simple, almost old-fashioned question: are you a citizen? Normally that letter goes out to about 200 people a year — a quiet bit of housekeeping as Alaska checks its voter rolls against DMV records. This year the number jumped fifteen-fold. Carol Beecher, who runs the state’s Division of Elections, told lawmakers this week that “old data” got swept up somehow in the comparison. Nobody’s yet said exactly how a filing cabinet’s worth of outdated records ended up flagging thousands of real,

Trump Ties Saudi Nuclear Deal to Israel Normalization

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President Trump threw a wrench into his own nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia this week — and he did it on purpose. On Wednesday, the Energy Department announced with some fanfare that Washington and Riyadh had finalized an agreement to share American nuclear know-how with the Saudis for civilian use. Energy Secretary Chris Wright signed it alongside his Saudi counterpart, Prince Abdulaziz, and the statements coming out of the department made it sound like a done deal, full steam ahead, nothing left to see here. Then Thursday, Trump got on Truth Social and added a catch nobody in Washington saw

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