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WASHINGTON — President Biden will appoint John Podesta, a veteran Washington insider who spearheaded the Obama administration’s climate strategy, to oversee the federal investment of $370 billion in clean energy under a landmark new climate law. As a senior adviser to Mr. Biden on clean energy innovation, Mr. Podesta will shape how the government disperses billions of dollars in tax credits and incentives to industries that are developing wind and solar energy, as well as to consumers who want to install solar panels, heat and cool their homes with electric heat pumps or buy electric vehicles. In addition to his...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Fox News on Thursday that talks with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had made progress, but no deal has been reached. Democrats have resisted reaching a deal with Republicans, with some Democratic politicians and strategists worried that any deal to boost the economy might help Trump’s re-election efforts. Some liberal activists oppose any deals with the Trump administration under any circumstances.

On Nov. 5, 1980, a generation of Democratic leaders awoke to a startling fact. Their party, the fountain of New Deal and Great Society liberalism, the coalition that had run this country virtually uninterrupted … [awakened to find] the reins of power were gone, and the party officialdom were reeling. Months later nothing has changed. … [O]bserved … party theoretician Ben Wattenberg, “What has been happening in this party for the last six months is people saying, ‘We have to come up with new ideas.’ We have a lot of people phrasing that idea, in several very novel ways, but...

The missus's impromptu call signals clinton polling woesAn extension of A Scoundrel's Pythagorean Imperative, missus clinton's Sunday-Circuit, pink-suited panic by Mia T, 12.23.03 Hillary from Westchester was on the line, and she was upset. "Literally, I have been accused of everything from murder on down," the first-time caller complained. "And it's hurtful and personally distressing when it first happens. But when it continues . . ." Hillary was Hillary Rodham Clinton, the junior United States senator from New York, who surprised Brian Lehrer by unexpectedly phoning his call-in show on WNYC radio in New York this month to respond to...

[Poster's note: There is more, unfortunately, much more to this self-promotion newsletter than what I've posted below. If you have a really strong stomach or need to void because you have bulimia or are chronically anorexic, just click here^.] Thank you for your interest in the Clinton Presidential Center! In this e-newsletter, you will find updates about the former President's recent activities and obtain progress reports on the Clinton Presidential Center currently being built in Little Rock, Arkansas. We are pleased to announce that the construction of the Clinton Presidential Center and Park, which includes a Library, Museum, Archives, and...

Attorney Johnnie Cochran of O.J. Simpson fame was accused Thursday of legal malpractice for missing a deadline to file a lawsuit on behalf of a North Beverly woman injured during a routine gynecological procedure at Provident Hospital. ...Donald Shapiro, an attorney representing Burrows in the legal malpractice complaint, accused Cochran of "drawing on his name" to get hefty referral fees in the Chicago area, but failing to accept the legal responsibility that comes with it.