(Bloomberg View) -- 1. Seth Masket anticipates normal election cycles going forward. Plausible!
2. Leticia Bode at the Monkey Cage looks at "political unfriending."
3. Dan Drezner on all those generals in the new administration.
4. Greg Sargent details what might happen in states Republicans represent if Obamacare simply disappears.
5. My Bloomberg View colleague Megan McArdle on the coming (and continuing) question of how to deal with long-term care.
6. Michael McFaul on what Donald Trump could do to reassure U.S. allies.
7. And Evan McMullin on the dangers Trump poses to constitutional government.
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