Americans are fed up with watching legislators make suspiciously well-timed trades. Pass a law now, or the problem is only going to get worse.
Years ago, congressmen and their staff would receive USIC country briefings at the appropriate level. We found out later these congressmen used that info to help make personal financial decisions in overseas investments or enterprises. This was bipartisan abuse and it looks like nothing has changed: www.reddit.com
#8: Morning Doc Sarvis: Apt description. Decades ago I briefed some of these CODELs and for them to learn if a regime is stable is priceless. The Aliev family still has a stranglehold on their oil-rich domain: pennbookcenter.com
BTW: Posting the Umberto Eco essay is great idea, but for MAGAts the erudition will fall on tin ears. I still have the daunting Foucault's Pendulum on my bookshelf gathering dust. Dr. Eco wrote way above my pay grade as a humble Shakespearean, although I was able to complete The Name of the Rose within a reasonable time.
#10: Glad I'm not alone. I'll get to it one day, I keep saying to myself. And who could possibly have edited Umberto Eco's work, Elaine Benes?  ;-) 
There was an Australian novelist who required little to no editing or proof-reading: m.media-amazon.com
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