November 14, 8:37 a.m. my phone rings. I do a double take on my caller ID and realize who is calling. I take a deep breath and answer the phone. The next 30 minutes and 32 seconds would be a conversation that was nothing short of surreal. My…
Following months of litigation between the Small Business Administration and news organizations seeking data about who benefited from pandemic relief programs, the agency on Tuesday night released a sweeping dataset of every small business that…
The New York Times
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Thomas L. Friedman
– Dec 1, 2020, 9:11 PM
President-elect Joe Biden was in a good mood as we talked on the phone Tuesday evening for an hour — he in Delaware and me in Bethesda, Md. He apologized, though, for being late. He had been following the breaking news that Attorney General…
The New York Times
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Maggie Haberman
– Dec 1, 2020, 11:11 AM
Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump's lawyer who has led the most extensive efforts to damage his client's political rivals and undermine the election results, discussed with him as recently as last week the possibility of receiving a pre-emptive…
Barack Obama 's new memoir, A Promised Land, details not just his time in the White House, but his unconventional journey into politics. The book's main character isn't just the former president of the United States. He's also the biracial kid…