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The Second Year of the Biden White House Brought an Uptick in ‘A Team’ Turnover

The Biden White House had a “significant uptick” in departures among its “A team” in its second year, after a relatively stable first year, according to a new analysis. The study, published on the two-year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, nonresident senior fellow for governance studies at the Brookings Institution, defines the “A team” as the 66 senior executive positions in the Executive Office of the President, which are all highly influential and have important relationships with other government officials, stakeholders and the media.
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas
Washington Post

Dads in Congress form a caucus to push for family-friendly policies

Mothers in Congress have historically taken the lead on these sorts of issues. When the Moms in the House caucus formed four years ago, Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, told The Post that she appreciated the group’s intent to advance family-focused policies and support working moms in Congress, but she also felt the existence of a mothers-only group reinforced the idea that these issues and challenges belong to mothers alone.
Jennifer Lawless
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Putin is stuck with a Ukrainian war that is bleeding his country

UVA Today interviewed William Antholis, director and CEO of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center for Public Affairs and chair of a weekly “Ukraine War Room” Zoom call with around 25 Miller Center and UVA experts on Russia, Europe, military affairs, geopolitics, and the global economy.
William J. Antholis
Foreign Policy

Is Cold War Inevitable?

Those questions go to the heart of another recent book about the Cold War, The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam, by University of Virginia historian Marc J. Selverstone, who argues that even presidents who might realize the potential hazard of overreacting can nonetheless be pulled in. In his book, Selverstone dissects one of the last enduring shibboleths of the Cold War: the Camelot myth that President John F. Kennedy would have avoided the quagmire of Vietnam had he lived.
Marc Selverstone
The Bulwark

As Germany Delays, Ukrainians Die

Every day that Germany fails to approve or facilitate the transfer of its Leopard tanks to Ukraine is costing Ukrainian lives and risks emboldening the authoritarian Putin regime. Polish foreign minister Zbigniew Rau put it succinctly when he tweeted: “Arming Ukraine in order to repel the Russian aggression is not some kind of decision-making exercise. Ukrainian blood is shed for real. This is the price of hesitation over Leopard deliveries. We need action, now.”
Eric Edelman