Filibusters, Protests and a Memory Lane Drive

(Bloomberg View) -- 1. What's going to happen with tax reform? At Brookings, Molly E. Reynolds and Vanessa Williamson look at it through the lens of the health-care debacle. 

2. Josh Huder argues that the legislative filibuster is safe for now. 

3. While Greg Koger is ready to say goodbye to the Supreme Court filibuster.

4. Erica Chenoweth, Jonathan Pinckney, Jeremy Pressman and Stephen Zunes at the Monkey Cage are tracking Trump-era protests. 

5. Dan Larison doubts that foreign adventurism would revive Donald Trump's approval ratings. I think that's generally correct, although it depends a lot, of course, on how successful the adventure might be. In the short run, what seems to matter most is the reaction of the other party's leaders. 

6. And you're not going to want to miss my Bloomberg View colleague Timothy L. O'Brien's latest on Trump.

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