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.

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

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.”

Don't expect a @realDonaldTrump comeback  —  Sad news for loser @jack (chocker?) and all the haters.  Despite what many people are calling “heavy demand,” @realDonaldTrump will not be returning — like a dog — to his once Favorite part of The Big, Beautiful internet.

Biden should fact-check the White House press corps  —  The White House press corps, ginned up by Republican hype, has for weeks hounded White House press secretary Jen Psaki and anyone else from the Biden administration who comes into the briefing room about what is happening at the border.

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

Sidney Powell does an about-face on her Stop the Steal claims  —  Now she tells us.  —  Attorney Sidney Powell, you may recall, was the Madame Defarge of the recent attempt to overturn the election results.  She knitted elaborate lawsuits from the yarns of unreliable witnesses …

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 …

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 …

Carcinogen Found in Hand Sanitizers That Plugged Pandemic Gap  — Benzene found by online quality-assurance pharmacy Valisure  — Lesser-known products filled U.S. void caused by Covid rush  —  Some widely available hand sanitizers that American consumers snapped up last year …

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.”

The Future of Conservatism?  —  Scott Walker is no Bill Buckley  —  Back in July 2019, our colleague, Jim Swift, asked “Can Scott Walker Save the Future of Conservatism?”  —  The former Wisconsin governor had just been named the president of the Young America's Foundation …

'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% …

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

They Just Moved Into an Austin Neighborhood.  Now They Want to End One of Its Traditions.  —  Car clubs have gathered for decades at “Chicano Park” in the East Cesar Chavez neighborhood.  But residents of a new luxury apartment building have started calling the police to stop them.