Biden's New Deal: Re-engineering America, quickly  —  President Biden recently held an undisclosed East Room session with historians that included discussion of how big is too big — and how fast is too fast — to jam through once-in-a-lifetime historic changes to America.

Officer Brian Sicknick Died After the Capitol Riot.  New Videos Show How He Was Attacked. … New videos obtained by The New York Times show publicly for the first time how the U.S. Capitol Police officer who died after facing off with rioters on Jan. 6 was attacked with chemical spray.

Medium Editorial Team Update  —  We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today.  Below is the email I sent to the company.  —  Team,  —  We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.

How Interest-Group Politics Works for All  —  Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics and policy.  He taught political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio and DePauw University and wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

The Post says: Get weapons of war off America's streets  —  Eight slain in Atlanta, now 10 in Boulder.  Your town could be next.  Can the nation finally do something about weapons of war on our streets?  —  President Joe Biden called Tuesday for Congress to move immediately to “ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.”

Israel Election, the Day After: The Right Gears Up for Massive ‘The Left Stole the Vote’ Campaign  —  Israel elections 2021: Haaretz reveals how Benjamin and Yair Netanyahu, Likud officials and their media proxies have been using the Trump (and QAnon) playbook to cast doubt over election results since April 2019

Trump's presidency was a disaster for his business  —  Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success” and co-author, with Peter Eisner, of the book “High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump.”

'I don't want to be the one who gives it to people': Many Americans won't eat out, fly until herd immunity arrives  —  A growing share of Americans would feel safe resuming activities like dining out or flying within a few weeks of their second dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but about 25% to 30% …

An Unusually Optimistic Conversation With Bernie Sanders  —  I'm Ezra Klein and this is “The Ezra Klein Show.”  —  There were times, so many times during 2020 election when I was pretty certain Senator Bernie Sanders was going to win the Democratic primary and then win the presidential …

Man Says He Found Shrimp Tails in Cinnamon Toast Crunch  —  Crave those crazy ... shrimp tails?  —  Cereal is a staple of the American breakfast table, consumed by millions of people every day and tied, for many, with memories of childhood.  So when a story began circulating this week …

Blue-state Republicans slump without Trump as foil  —  BOSTON — As recently as October, Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker was basking in his typically stratospheric poll ratings.  More than 70 percent approved of his job performance.  Roughly the same amount felt the same way about his handling of the Covid-19 crisis.

Most GOP Voters Oppose House's Move to Bring Back Earmarks  —  Republican opposition to reviving the practice is even higher than it was months ago, poll shows  — 56% of GOP voters said they oppose the use of earmarks, which House Republicans agreed last week to revive.

Steyer polls the Newsom recall — offering himself as an alternative  —  Tom Steyer is polling the California recall.  —  And the billionaire environmental activist and erstwhile presidential hopeful has included his own name among the list of possible contenders to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom …

Daniel Snyder to Buy Out Other Owners of Washington NFL Team  —  The league is expected to approve a measure that will allow Daniel Snyder to buy total control of the team.  —  Seeking to move past a year of tumult over the team's former name and a sexual harassment investigation of its front office …

Jim Crow Is Not on the Georgia Ballot  —  Here are the actual proposals being cast as ‘voter suppression.’  —  The battle over voting rules is erupting again, and Georgia is back as political ground zero.  It's “a redux of Jim Crow, in a suit and tie,” says Democrat and media favorite Stacey Abrams with her usual understatement.

No, the ‘presidential salute’ isn't a thing — and neither is the ‘vice presidential salute’ … The hotly debated issue of the “presidential salute” is once again making the rounds online, except this time it has broadened in scope to include the “vice presidential salute.”

What happens to the filibuster depends on how Republicans play their hand  —  Opinion by Angus King  —  Angus S. King Jr., an independent, represents Maine in the U.S. Senate.  —  I first came to the Senate eight years ago, at the beginning of President Barack Obama's second term and when the Democrats were in the majority.

Former professor says Yale fired her over tweet on Trump, Dershowitz  —  Bandy Lee MED '94 DIV '95, a formerly Yale-affiliated faculty member in the School of Medicine and Yale Law School, filed a complaint against the University on Monday alleging “unlawful termination …

Bad News Bias  —  The U.S. media is offering a different picture of Covid-19 from science journals or the international media, a study finds.  —  Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS.

The IRS Should Do More to Nab Wealthy Tax Dodgers  —  Timothy L. O'Brien is a senior columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.  —  President Joe Biden has big, ambitious plans that will continue to ring up unwieldy bills for the federal government.  His administration will have to fund a significant …

Utah governor signs divisive measure to require porn filters  —  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is a step closer to requiring all cellphones and tablets sold in the conservative state to automatically block pornography after the Republican governor signed legislation Tuesday that critics call a significant intrusion of free speech.

New poll finds voters cautiously optimistic about City's future, though half are presently undecided in the upcoming race for mayor  —  Pulse of the Primary: 2021 NYC Mayor's Race, presented by Fontas Advisors and Core Decision Analytics (CODA), released its second set of poll results on March 24th.

All 10 Boulder Colorado Victims Were White.  It's Time to End Anti-White Race Hate.  —  The following ten people perished in the recent shooting in Boulder, Colorado carried out by Ahmad Al-Issa.  All of them appear to be white, but neither the media nor politicians have bothered to resurrect …

G.O.P. and Allies Draft ‘Best Practices’ for Restricting Voting  —  As Republican legislatures seek to usher in a raft of new voting restrictions, they are being prodded by an array of party leaders and outside groups working to coordinate the efforts.  —  In late January …

Israeli Spy Pollard Betrays America Yet Again  —  The traitor's latest self-serving lie adds another burden to minorities in US national security agencies  —  Jonathan Pollard, his grandiosity, narcissism and disingenuousness undiminished, cannot stop hurting the country that gave his Holocaust-ravaged family a life.

Brazil Is Looking Like The Worst Place On Earth For COVID-19  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Cinthia Ribeiro knew she had a fight on her hands when COVID-19 arrived in her hometown in Brazil.  What she didn't know was that, one year on, humans would be out to kill her too.

Georgia Prosecutors Eye ‘False Statement’ Charges for Rudy Giuliani and Team Trump  —  Charging the ex-president's lawyer with lying to officials would be unusual.  But so were Rudy Giuliani's antics after the election. … Local prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia …