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5 Reasons Why “Show Me Your Budget” Is the Perfect Response to the House GOP Debt Ceiling Threat

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

1 day ago
4 min

5 Reasons Why “Show Me Your Budget” Is the Perfect Response to the House GOP Debt Ceiling Threat

And One Reason Why It’s Not Perfect By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin, February 2, 2023 Sometimes it seems like every day is Groundhog Day...

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Lessons From History Tell Us How This Budget Battle May End

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

2 days ago
6 min

Lessons From History Tell Us How This Budget Battle May End

Alice Rivlin takes us back to 1982-1983 By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin January 31, 2023 Today we find ourselves in a familiar pattern....

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Searching For Integrity Interview With Divided We Fall

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

2 days ago
1 min

Searching For Integrity Interview With Divided We Fall

John Smith's fascinating podcast Searching for Integrity interviewed Allan Rivlin about Divided We Fall, Zen Politics, the House under...

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Real Debt Reduction Will Require Bipartisan Negotiations

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

2 days ago
5 min

Real Debt Reduction Will Require Bipartisan Negotiations

Our last post argued that the divided and chaotic GOP House has no power to require Democrats to negotiate spending cuts in response to...

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Why the GOP Can’t Play Games with the US Debt Ceiling

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jan 18
4 min

Why the GOP Can’t Play Games with the US Debt Ceiling

Have you ever had this nightmare? You are behind the wheel of a 1962 Thunderbird hot-rod in a game of “chicken” on a dark street. You are...

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The Budget Process; Pushed to (and Sometimes Beyond) the Breaking Point

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jan 13
5 min

The Budget Process; Pushed to (and Sometimes Beyond) the Breaking Point

By Alice Rivlin, Sheri Rivlin, and Allan Rivlin With House Republicans calling for a return to “regular order” in passing budget...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jan 4
4 min

Gaming Out the Votes for House Speaker

The fact that we even started writing this post is an expression of confidence that this impasse will not soon be resolved. It cannot go...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Jan 2
5 min

Is a New Supermajority Ruling America?

In 2022 we wrote a book about congressional dysfunction, but the 117th Congress that closed out 2022 with a flurry of bipartisan...

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Steven Perlstein: What Congress needs is an Uprising of the Serious

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 31, 2022
1 min

Steven Perlstein: What Congress needs is an Uprising of the Serious

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Steven Pearlstein writes, "I realize the idea of a bipartisan Uprising of the Serious ...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 31, 2022
2 min

A Good Bipartisan Lame Duck Deal

President Biden and Congress ended the year with a very good bipartisan budget deal to fund government through the end of the fiscal year...

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A great Conversation with Andy Gallacher on Stuck in the Middle with Who?

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 13, 2022
1 min

A great Conversation with Andy Gallacher on Stuck in the Middle with Who?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stuck-in-the-middle-with-who/id1634229267

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WBAI Lopate At Large with Divided We Fall

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 12, 2022
1 min

WBAI Lopate At Large with Divided We Fall

Click the image above to got to the Apple Podcast page for Allan Rivlin's interview with Leonard Lopate.

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 12, 2022
1 min

Divided We Fall on Tavis Smiley

https://kbla1580.com/tavis-smiley/?futurishared=6812&station=KBLAAM#.Y4vZE9DD1aY.twitter A great discussion between Allan Rivlin and...

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Keynote Address: Bipartisan Policy Center

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Oct 14, 2022
7 min

Keynote Address: Bipartisan Policy Center

Thank you Bill (Hoagland) and we agree that Alice would feel that this event, and this panel, would feel like a return home to an...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Oct 5, 2022
14 min

What Would Alice Rivlin Say Now?

A partial summary of the Divided We Fall Preface and Afterword by Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin prepared for the Brookings Institution...

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Divided We Fall (The Book) Q&A With Divided We Fall (The Website)

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Sep 27, 2022
8 min

Divided We Fall (The Book) Q&A With Divided We Fall (The Website)

Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin – President and CEO of Zen Political Research and authors of “Divided We Fall: Why Consensus Matters“...

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Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Dec 3, 2019
4 min

One Word: Bribery

By Sheri Rivlin and Allan Rivlin At the start of the impeachment hearings it looked like Democrats had settled on the charge of bribery...

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Amazon HQ2: Missed Opportunity after Missed Opportunity

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Feb 25, 2019
6 min

Amazon HQ2: Missed Opportunity after Missed Opportunity

Amazon has always seemed to be two steps ahead of the calendar as it built one of the most profitable corporations in the world leaving...

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The Democrats Big New Idea: Get Stuff Done

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Nov 14, 2018
8 min

The Democrats Big New Idea: Get Stuff Done

After a long hard contest and days of counting ballots, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema has been declared the winner in the Arizona Senate race...

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Heartland States’ Economies Highlighted in New Brookings Books, Papers, and a Data-Rich Report and T

Sheri Rivlin Allan Rivlin

Oct 26, 2018
6 min

Heartland States’ Economies Highlighted in New Brookings Books, Papers, and a Data-Rich Report and T

If newspapers and cable television provide the rough first draft of history, it takes the think tanks about two years to produce the...

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