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...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...The move puts Podesta, 75, a veteran of the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, at the heart of US international climate policy....
...less about policy than campaign politics, since delay allows Biden to put off a showdown between strident supporters on both sides of the issue,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former climate adviser to the Bill Clinton...
...“There is no other political party that is getting away with such denialism in any other major country,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former White House adviser to then-president Bill Clinton and now strategic adviser...
...It’s me back again after Aime Williams superbly stood in last week. Her take on the World Bank in the run-up to its spring meetings is here if you missed it....
...economic toll of extreme weather events related to climate change, and yet have it not be part of the political conversation,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former White House climate adviser under president Bill Clinton...
...And the most recent time was the mid-1990s when [Bill Clinton’s political strategist] James Carville famously said, “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president...
...A frequent attendee was Hillary Clinton, whom Brown talks about admiringly....
...Some of my favourites were written by men — despite breakthroughs such as Beatriz Williams’ engaging 2021 thriller, Our Woman in Moscow, which fictionalises the ring of spies known as the Cambridge Five,...
...For example, President Nixon interacted with Fed officials 160 times, while only 6 interactions took place during the 8 years of the Clinton administration....
...As Jennifer Williams reports, only about 31 per cent of the pot has been spent to date....
...William Barr, the US attorney-general at the time, in 2019 directed Durham to conduct a review of the origins of the Russia probe, which morphed into a criminal investigation....
...“The United States clearly went too far in not paying enough attention to its industrial base,” said Podesta, a senior member of the Clinton and Obama administrations during an era of globalisation....
...Here’s what Clinton remembered from his chilling conversation with Putin....
...Fascinating essay by sociologist William Davies. (London Review of Books) — There’s still too much money sloshing around VC-land....
...One of the pithier remarks about America’s geopolitical rivalry with China came recently from Larry Summers, who served in Barack Obama and Bill Clinton’s administrations in a different, more optimistic...
...The last time a president won re-election in spite of a recession in his last two years was William McKinley in 1900....
...The hope, says Paul Bledsoe, a former Clinton White House climate adviser, is that the tax incentives and public money will “unleash trillions of dollars in new private sector investment”....
...A former Clinton State Department alumnus and former founding head of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation’s economy and society initiative — where she funded many of the most influential policy thinkers...
...“Industrial America just abandoned these communities,” says Williams. But at the moment, its operation is limited in scale — it employs just 140 people....
...A book Blasi and two colleagues wrote a decade ago, The Citizen’s Share, sheds light on the history of this perk, highlighting William Cooper Procter as one early advocate....
...As for Arsenal, no amount of grit or bottle will compensate for the absence of superstar William Saliba at centre-back. stephen.bush@ft.com...
...Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to former president Bill Clinton and also helped coordinate the Obama adminstration’s climate policy and initiatives....
...Paul Bledsoe, a former White House climate adviser under Bill Clinton, now at Washington’s Progressive Policy Institute, said the ratification “could be a turning point in US climate politics, where finally...
...Just as the Tea Party’s excesses helped re-elect Obama in 2012, and the 1998 Clinton impeachment was good for Democrats, the upcoming Biden impeachment saga can only boost his 2024 re-election prospects....
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