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The Impact of DC Protests on Biden’s Transition (Podcast)

Dr. Chris Beyrer, Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, provides a coronavirus and vaccine update. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Businessweek National Correspondent Josh Green talk about the story “The Trashing of American Democracy Was Trump’s Farewell Party.” Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu discuss the Biden transition following protests in Washington. And we Drive to the Close with Walter Todd, President and CIO at Greenwood Capital.

Chris Lu

'Trump's power came to an end yesterday'

Senior Fellow Mary Kate Cary is interviewed on Canada's CTV News about the January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol.

Mary Kate Cary

Raphael Warnock, Jon Ossoff's Georgia Wins Raise Progressive Hopes of Shaping Biden Agenda

With Warnock and Ossoff now heading to the Senate, many progressives are hopeful that their wins will grant Democrats a smooth path forward in implementing a more left-leaning agenda. But during a recent conversation with Newsweek, Jennifer Lawless, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said the reality likely won't be as clear-cut. With narrow majorities in the House and Senate, Democratic leaders will have to strike a balance between securing legislative victories and avoiding alienating the more moderate members of their party.

Jennifer Lawless

China’s Starring Role in Hollywood

What does it take to make a Hollywood blockbuster? Movie stars? A great script? How about approval from the Chinese government? In this episode, two guests explore the surprising role of Chinese censorship and oversight in the production of U.S. films and ask what’s at stake as their presence increases.

Aynne Kokas

Five foreign policy plums ripe for Biden's picking

Not since Hercules cleaned out the Augean stables has an incoming leader faced a messier and more difficult task than that President Trump leaves behind. And despite Hercules’s strength and cleverness, he did not get much credit for his labor. President-elect Biden faces similar prospects of hard work and little reward in his main domestic tasks, and foreign policy challenges such as Iran and China promise further distractions rather than relief. But there are low-hanging diplomatic fruits that could give the new administration an early start and gain political capital at home and abroad.

Brantly Womack

Governance

Congress should reform the law to ensure federal vacancies are filled

Serious flaws with the law that governs federal vacancies combined with Senate inaction have enabled Donald Trump to fill numerous critical jobs with acting officials indefinitely, a practice that has destabilized the work of federal agencies and undermined the role of the Senate.

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas and Max Stier

The Hill