Can Americans still have a sensible and friendly political discussion across the partisan divide? The answer is yes, and we prove it every week. Julie Roginsky, a Democrat, and Mike DuHaime, a Republican, are consultants who have worked on opposite teams for their entire careers yet have remained friends throughout. Here, they discuss the week’s events with editorial page editor Tom Moran.
Q. Gov. Phil Murphy sent a three-person rescue team to the state-run veteran’s nursing home in Menlo Park, where the state’s failure to stop repeated Covid outbreaks is risking a cutoff of federal funds. About 200 vets have died at two state-run nursing homes during the pandemic, in Menlo Park and Paramus. But is it the risk of losing funding that got the governor’s attention?
