THE BACKCHANNEL
FREE EDITION
NEW!
A FREE email newsletter from Josh Marshall
An email newsletter from Josh Marshall
One of the interesting side effects of a major scandal is all you learn about the details about how the government actually works, or is supposed to work. This is the case even if you’re broadly knowledgeable about the functioning of the federal bureaucracy. So for instance, one of the career officials in the pipeline for the Ukraine aide was a guy named Mark Sandy.