Iran’s Hard-Liners – Better Behaved than GOP?
Iran’s usually vocal clerics and military commanders are heeding the call of the country’s supreme leader, who has largely supported the negotiations. (New York Times)
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What’s Ted Cruz’s worst idea? This could be it.
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Political Media Recommendations
In the March 16, 2016 Ask The Politics Guys episode, Mike and Jay passed along their political media recommendations in three categories: websites, books, and movies / documentaries. Below are links to everything they mentioned: Websites New York Times (Mike’s #1 site) Wall Street Journal (Jay’s #1 site) The Guardian (Mike) The Monkey Cage (Mike) The Upshot (Mike)…
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Trade Agreements and America’s Failing Experiment
In what may appear to be a scene out of Bizarro World, many congressional Republicans are pushing to give President Obama fast-track trade negotiation authority while the president’s own party is doing its best to make sure that their leader fails in his effort to gain more authority over trade deals. On one level, it’s straightforward…