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Summer Internships: Liberals and Leftists Strike Out
- Dissent
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 54, Number 1, Winter 2007 (whole No. 226)
- pp. 90-92
- 10.1353/dss.2007.0012
- Article
- Additional Information
When it's not clogged with protestors or full of summer concertgoers, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is often overrun by softball players. Every year, staffers from dozens of congressional offices and nonprofit organizations field teams to compete in the annual summer league. As you might expect, there are some great rivalries—it's rumored that elected officials regularly bet on the outcome of some high profile matchups. Like the institutions they represent, the softball teams are buttressed by the influx of thousands of interns that flock to Washington every summer.