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Ivanka Trump's Push For Family Leave Draws Criticism From Former Obama Official

The article prompted this response from Chris Lu, who worked for President Barack Obama as White House Cabinet secretary, and later as deputy secretary of labor: "Democrats have led the way on #PaidLeave for years. The FAMILY Act by @SenGillibrand and @rosadelauro is supported by a wide range of stakeholders including business leaders."
Chris Lu
Boston Globe

How Democrats would be better off if Bill Clinton had never been president

Russell Riley, the head of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, says Clinton’s aides were so determined to avoid scandal that they had protocols in place to prevent the president from being alone with women. (Maybe that’s where Mike Pence got the idea for his never-alone-with-a-lady-besides-my-wife rule.) How did the system fall apart with Lewinsky? The government shutdown in November 1995 cleared the White House of everyone except senior leaders and lowly interns, and that left Clinton unchaperoned.
Russell Riley
TIME

5 Reasons Why Supreme Court Nominations Have Failed

The work of these outside interest groups “torpedoed” Parker’s confirmation, says Barbara Perry, the Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, who spoke to TIME as part of a presidential-history partnership between TIME History and the Miller Center.
Barbara Perry
Foreign Affairs

Why the Marshall Plan worked

The Marshall Plan was the most successful U.S. foreign policy program of the Cold War, and arguably the most successful in all of U.S. history. In France, Italy, the United Kingdom, West Germany, and beyond, the plan’s $13 billion in aid expedited economic recovery, buoyed morale, and eroded the appeal of communism. All that is well known. But what is often forgotten is that the Marshall Plan also ratcheted up Cold War tensions.
Melvyn Leffler
CNN

In Trump's court pick, who won?

Kavanaugh's brand of conservatism is more akin to his mentor President George W. Bush's "compassionate" variety than the extremism of many "movement conservatives" in the Goldwater/Reagan mold.
Barbara Perry