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Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan is participating in the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington — just as a new federal administration is sworn in.

Carlos Lozada is an opinion columnist at The New York Times and cohost of the "Matter of Opinion" podcast. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and is the author of "What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era." Lozada's new book is "The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians."

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Tom Daschle and Trent Lott are two of the most prominent senators of recent time. Both served in their respective parties' leadership positions from the…

In his new book, The Deep State, Mike Lofgren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over, delivers a House of Cards–style exposé of who…