As I suggested in my article at the Prospect about Deb Haaland, it makes a lot of sense for Harris to keep on most of Biden's Cabinet. There's already been an unusual amount of stability here, largely due to how hard it is to get...
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One lesson of the Alabama Senate race that does not seem to ever sink to either party is that there is no good reason for a president to name sitting.
A couple quick thoughts on SecState and SecDef: I'm not so sure that the Benghazi imbroglio was the proximate cause of Rice's decision to step aside. I don't have any.