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The Washington Roundtable: Dianne Feinstein, who was the longest-serving female senator in U.S. history, died on Thursday, at the age of ninety. The New Yorker staff writers Susan B. Glasser, Jane Mayer, and Evan Osnos remember the Democrat from San Francisco, who leaves a legacy as an advocate for gun control and against the torture of detainees after 9/11. She fought to enable the release of the sixty-seven-hundred-page report of the C.I.A.\u2019s interrogation program, though she worried about the effect on national security of criticizing the program, Jane Mayer recalls on this week\u2019s episode. \u201cBut she went with it on her own instincts,\u201d says Mayer, \u201cand then commissioned a study that laid out the guts of that program in a way that was incredible.\u201d\xa0

Also this week, President Biden, speaking at Arizona State University, called MAGA Republicans \u201ca threat to the brick and mortar of our democratic institutions\u201d and to the \u201ccharacter of our nation.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard a President feel the need to say in the course of a speech, \u2018I stand for the peaceful transfer of power,\u2019 \u201d Evan Osnos says. \u201cBut that\u2019s actually what\u2019s required at the moment.\u201d

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