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Washington Post

The time to question election results has passed, all living former defense secretaries say

The article brings together a group of Republicans and Democrats who disagree on many national security issues. Its genesis is a conversation between Eric Edelman, a former U.S. ambassador and defense official, and former vice president and defense secretary Richard B. Cheney about how the military might be used in coming days, Edelman said in an interview.
Eric Edelman
The Conversation

America's newest voters look back at the 2020 election – and forward to politics in 2021

As Americans end one year and begin another, one of the most controversial topics of conversation will be the presidential election. We experienced the election season from a unique perspective. We each taught college courses on the 2020 campaigns while they were underway, and as a result had a sort of three-month-long focus-grouplike conversation with the newest American voters.
Mary Kate Cary
USA Today

Liberal and conservative teach the 2020 election. Together. On Zoom. What could go wrong?

Worried that 2021 could be filled with cringe-worthy political conversations around the virtual dinner table and, post-pandemic, in real life? Dreading the moment that an outspoken neighbor, work colleague or family member pops off? Well, the two of us — one a card-carrying liberal and the other a self-avowed conservative — just survived 13 weeks of hour-long political conversations, twice a week every week. And get this: We actually enjoyed it.
Jennifer Lawless
USA Today

Liberal and conservative teach the 2020 election. Together. On Zoom. What could go wrong?

Worried that 2021 could be filled with cringe-worthy political conversations around the virtual dinner table and, post-pandemic, in real life? Dreading the moment that an outspoken neighbor, work colleague or family member pops off? Well, the two of us — one a card-carrying liberal and the other a self-avowed conservative — just survived 13 weeks of hour-long political conversations, twice a week every week. And get this: We actually enjoyed it.
Mary Kate Cary
Washington Post

Trump wields pardon power as political weapon, rewarding loyalists and undermining prosecutors

Trump’s wave of pardons, coming less than a month before he is set to leave office, is his latest exploitation of his executive powers in ways that offend the spirit of the Constitution, if not its letter, said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. “The pardon is an unfettered power, so I don’t think that there was ever a chance that he wasn’t going to look after the people he’s been quietly authorizing and protecting all along,” he said. “Nobody with a straight face can argue that this use of the pardon power is consistent with what the Framers envisioned when they conveyed it in Article II.”
Russell Riley