1 part Sinema
1 part Manchin
4 parts Tribalism
4 parts Politics-As-Usual

These are the ingredients one grinds to paste with the pestle when concocting a cure for last February's bout with optimism:

On Moving the Needle

I wonder what it will be like for things to get better after being arguably as bad as they have ever been. I wonder how all those falsehoods will play after things start to get better. I wonder how …

5:27 PM • Feb 21, 2021reading time 2 minutes