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By Sheeva Azma In late October, just a couple weeks ago, I spent some time in Washington, DC, where I was lucky enough to be a moderator of an important discussion on science infrastructure in the US. While I would only be there for about 36 hours, I had an idea of what I wanted to do: walk around DC listening to music…and lo, this playlist was born.

By Sheeva Azma “American Indians are not perceived when theaters of being Indian are knocked down. We are not perceived when we choose to leave.” Disclosure: Fancy Comma has affiliate partnerships to support its content. We may earn commissions for products purchased via affiliate links. Back when I started the Fancy Comma YouTube, one of my earliest conversations was with fellow MIT alum David Shane Lowry, a member of the Lumbee tribe, who spoke with me in Sept.

By Sheeva Azma Congress’s Constitutional authority of the “power of the purse” means that it funds all of government each year, including the executive and judicial branches. To understand the process by which the United States’ government gets funded every year, you need to know a little bit about how a bill goes from being an idea to becoming a law. We’ll get into that later in this post.