Stevenson’s army, January 11

– An APSA Task Force has come up with a host of reasonable ideas for reforming Congress, including better staff pay, bringing back earmarks, and an end to votes on the debt limit. Here’s the report, and here a conference at Brookings where it was released.
-There’s pushback on Trump claims that Suleimani was readying attacks on four US embassies.
– Iraq is in the middle, trying to sort out relations with both US and Iran .
– WSJ has more details on backchannel communications between Iran and US.
– Taiwan’s president reelected in landslide.

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