Saturday coffee klatch: Hitting our heads on the debt ceiling and other lowlights of the past week

Friends,

Welcome back to my Saturday coffee klatch with Heather Lofthouse, executive director of Inequality Media Civic Action (and my former student).

This morning we take a look at the past week, in particular:

— The debt ceiling scare, and the House Republicans’ attempt to hold the full faith and credit of the U.S. hostage to their demands.

— George Santos, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and other luminaries of the new Republican House.

— Supreme Court leaks, who Sherlock Holmes would name as the probable leaker, and why the Court doesn’t have a code of ethics.

Grab a cup and pull up a chair, and also take our poll.

And per our discussion, a photo of me teaching eons ago:

Harvard Kennedy School, Summer 1985