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Marjorie Taylor Greene Lashes Out at Fellow House Republican: ‘Congress Was Hijacked’ by ‘Self…Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at fellow Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) on Tuesday after Luna voted with Democrats in favor of remote voting for mothers of young children. “I can’t believe that Congress was hijacked this week over Luna’s resolution to allow members to skip work and vote from home,” protested Greene in a social media post: As a mom, I know all about seasons of life. If you aren’t capable of doing the job your constituents sent you to do, then you should step aside and let someone else do it. We have critical bills to pass to prevent illegals from voting and to stop judges from vetoing President Trump’s agenda. It’s a shame that selfish politicians are putting themselves before the American people. Greene…

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual StateOn September 20, 1938, a man who had witnessed the rise of fascism packed his suitcases and fled his home in Berlin. He arranged to have smuggled separately a manuscript that he had drafted in secret over the previous two years. This book was a remarkable one. It clarified what was unfolding in Berlin at the time, the catalyst for its author’s flight.The man fleeing that day was a Jewish labor lawyer named Ernst Fraenkel. He completed his manuscript two years later at the University of Chicago (where I teach), publishing it as The Dual State, with the modest subtitle A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship. The book explains how the Nazi regime managed to keep on track a capitalist economy governed by stable laws—and maintain a day-to-day normalcy for many of its citizens—while at the same time establishing a domain…

‘Trump Conducts Most of His Business From a Golf Course’: McGovern Fires Back at Republican Oppo…Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) hit back at Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) after she forcefully spoke out against allowing new parents to vote by proxy. Shortly after, the House ultimately thwarted a procedural measure that would have enabled leadership to change the chamber’s rules to prevent such voting. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) spearheaded the effort, which dealt a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who opposes proxy voting, even for new parents. She was one of nine Republicans who voted with Democrats to tank the procedural measure. Before the vote, Foxx gave a floor speech slamming proxy voting. “Put simply, members of Congress need to show up for work,” she said. “I support this rule and I urge my colleagues to support it on the floor.” McGovern spoke immediately after and noted all the times…

Without USAID, Myanmar Is Struggling to Recover From Its Massive EarthquakeChris Milligan arrived in Myanmar in 2012 with a mandate: Help repair diplomatic relations with the southeast Asian country by reopening its United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission.  By that point, Milligan had worked for the USAID for more than two decades—a tenure that included working on reconstruction in Baghdad following the Iraq War and coordinating the recovery response to Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake. His Myanmar assignment posed a similarly significant challenge: After decades spent under brutal military rule, the country was in the midst of trying to transition to democracy. Reopening the USAID mission in Myanmar, at the American embassy in the city of Yangon, was meant to facilitate that process by helping “reestablish [Myanmar’s] capacity to feed its people and to care for its sick, and educate its children, and build its democratic institutions,” former President…

It’s Not Easy Being (Marjorie Taylor) GreeneWhere have you gone, Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Big Bird?In a more innocent time, the hallowed puppets of Sesame Street were recurring characters in congressional debates about public broadcasting. They served a vital and somewhat quaint Kabuki function: Whenever a politician questioned whether PBS or NPR should continue to receive government funding, public broadcast advocates predictably trotted out their furry or feathered friends to disarm the bullies and remind everyone how beloved these iconic creatures are. Especially by kids. Remember the kids!Sadly, Messrs. Elmo, Monster, and Bird were nowhere to be seen on Capitol Hill today. They would not have fit in, anyway, as the proceedings in a crowded basement-level hearing room of the Capitol Visitor Center were not sweet, accepting, or the least bit neighborly.[Tom Junod: My friend Mr. Rogers]Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, had invited the head of PBS, Paula…

Lauren Boebert Thinks She’s Speaking to Roger Stone as She Asks Oliver Stone Wild Question About L…Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) confused filmmaker Oliver Stone with Trump ally and election conspiracy theorist Roger Stone during a House hearing on Tuesday into the recent release of the JFK assassination files. “Mr. Stone, you wrote a book accusing LBJ of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Did these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge of him being involved in the assassination of President Kennedy?” asked the Colorado Republican. “No, I didn’t. No, no, I didn’t,” replied a confused Stone, as Boebert said, “Yes, sir.” Stone added: If you look closely at the film, there’s no… It accuses the President Johnson of being part of a complicit in a cover-up of the case, but not in the assassination itself, which I don’t know. “What do you think that he…