Ronald Brownstein
Brownstein, a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, is a senior editor at The Atlantic & a senior political analyst for CNN.
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COVID cases, exposure have 260 Gwinnett school employees not working
Gwinnett County Public School teachers began in-person pre-planning Wednesday at the 141 facilities throughout the county. By the next day, approximately 260 employees had been excluded from work due to a positive case or contact with a case.
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“In-person training and meetings are taking place without areas being wiped down or disinfected in between and masks aren’t being worn at all times, said several teachers. Others added that their school still hadn’t received any hand sanitizer.”
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California vs. New York: One state's pandemic has been deadlier, but the numbers are more complex than case counts — San Francisco Chronicle
Their journeys began at about the same time, but California and New York immediately diverged down two very different paths during the coronavirus pandemic.
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In CA, “When they started seeing a slight flattening of the curve and what they thought was the peak, that’s when they reopened. And then it kept going up. In New York, they waited well after the peak period of the epidemic to begin to reopen.”
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The Pandemic Is Damaging the GOP Brand Everywhere
The 2020 election undoubtedly offers Democrats their best chance yet to reclaim state legislative chambers across the country.
The End of the Filibuster—No, Really
Many activists will not tolerate a Democratic-controlled Senate that allows Republicans to block civil-rights legislation next year.
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Prediction: Obama may be to Biden on eliminating the filibuster what Biden was to Obama on endorsing gay marriage.
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Wow. @BarackObama explicitly calls for eliminating the #filibuster-"a Jim Crow relic"-if it's used to block voting rights reform. I argued here why that's the issue most likely to cause Ds to end the filibuster if they achieved unified control in Nov.
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Trump's message collides with diversifying suburbs
President Donald Trump's racially charged warnings to suburban voters about crime and housing face a fundamental headwind: the suburbs themselves are much more racially diverse than even two decades ago.
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"Trump's racially charged warnings to suburban voters about crime and housing face a fundamental headwind: the suburbs themselves are much more racially diverse than even two decades ago." My take
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Portland, polarization, and the crisis of the Republican Party
"We are witnessing a crisis of democracy that is perfectly acceptable to a significant portion of the population — as long as it hurts their enemies."
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"This kind of violent federal deployment over the objections of state and local officials has no real precedent in American history." vox.com/2020/7/24/2133… via @voxdotcom
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America’s Cities Are Staggeringly Unequal
New data show how in every major metropolitan area, massive wealth gaps still separate white people and people of color.
Trump Is Determined to Split the Country in Two
He’s trying to rally red America by portraying blue cities as a threat, and then positioning himself as the human wall against them.
COVID is hitting Houston Hispanics hard - and it's getting worse
Roughly a third of Hispanics being tested for the virus in Harris County are receiving a positive result, according to a new study, by far the highest positivity rate of any ethnic group.
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Every word of this is devastating: Essential workers, missed messages: COVID is raging through Houston's Hispanic communities
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Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks
Gov. Brian Kemp on Wednesday extended Georgia’s coronavirus restrictions, largely keeping existing rules in place amid growing calls from local governments for more drastic action as illnesses spike across the state.
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A defining characteristic of the virus surge across the Sunbelt from FL/GA to TX/AZ: GOP Govs, following Trump's cues, who have prevented local Ds from acting as caseloads soar: "Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks."
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Coronavirus Live Updates: U.S. Hospital Beds Fill and Businesses Close as July Resembles March Amid Surge
The Trump administration ordered hospitals to bypass the C.D.C. with key virus data. Childhood vaccination rates worldwide continue to plunge.
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“Our assumption has to be that we’re going into re-lockdown in the fall,” said Karl Smith, the vice president of federal policy at the conservative Tax Foundation in Washington.
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Asked About Black Americans Killed by Police, Trump Says, ‘So Are White People’
The president rejected the fact that Black people suffer disproportionately from police brutality and made startling remarks about the Confederate flag and a recent confrontation in St. Louis.
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How desperate is Trump to stoke white racial fear? “Mr. Trump falsely claimed that a white couple in St. Louis who confronted peaceful marchers outside their home with guns had been on the verge of being beaten and having their home burned down”
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How the coronavirus is shaping health care politics in 2020
The coronavirus outbreak is now burning primarily through states with the highest share of uninsured residents, complicating the local response and amplifying the political debate over the future of the Affordable Care Act.
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Many experts believe the pandemic & #ACA soon could be connected in an even more visceral way: “There's no question in my mind that insurance companies would treat Covid-19 as a #preexistingcondition if they were allowed to," said Kaiser’s @larry_levitt
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Tech startup CEO resigns over video of racist rant at Asian family
Michael Lofthouse, CEO of California tech company Solid8, has resigned after release of a video showing him making a racist rant at an Asian family.
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It remains defining in how many of these incidents, the person hurling racist invective explicitly cites Trump: "Tech startup CEO resigns over video of racist rant at Asian family"
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Coronavirus in Texas: 19,458 cases and 495 deaths
The Texas Tribune is using data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track how many Texans have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Texas each day. The state data comes from local health officials and it may not represent...
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"10,002 Texans are in the hospital for the coronavirus as of July 10 — 2,350 more than a week ago." What's that look like in another week or two? @PeterHotez
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Trump’s America Is Slipping Away
He’s trying to assemble a winning coalition with a dwindling number of sympathetic white voters.
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Donald Trump is running for the presidency of an America that no longer exists. Here's why
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The Race-Hustler-in-Chief - The Bulwark
When the last president waded into race matters, conservative media were harshly critical. Now, Trump’s race-baiting earns nary a peep.
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"This would be pretty standard from the local Archie Bunker who likes to call in to sports-talk radio to complain about how all the Nets...don’t play fundamental ball like they did back in his day.
But in this instance Donny from Queens is the president"
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TMC hospitals go into Phase 2 surge plans as ICU capacity exceeds 100 percent
Texas Medical Center hospitals Wednesday began converting some regular floor beds into intensive care units Wednesday in response to a spike in COVID-19 patients that brought volumes above base capacity.
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Texas Medical Center hospitals go into Phase 2 surge plans as ICU capacity exceeds 100 percent
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For Trump, June was the cruelest month
Not since LBJ in 1968 has a president endured such a politically damaging month in the middle of an election year.
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From @georgecondon who has seen more than a few good and bad stretches for presidents: "This was a June from hell for President Trump, very possibly the worst month that any modern president has endured, at least while running for reelection."
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The white-collar revolt against Trump is peaking
From his open defiance of public health officials when holding rallies to his increasingly explicit embrace of White racial backlash, President Donald Trump has set a course for his reelection campaign that could produce the GOP's largest deficit in...
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Maricopa County AZ, the largest US county that Trump won in 2016, and the one county among those he captured that he can probably least afford to lose in 2020, has now surged well past 52,000 #coronavirus cases. The number was 9812 on May 31.
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