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How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump
To understand the President’s path to the 2020 election, look at what he has provided the country’s executive class.
Emily Badger
This @eosnos piece is so insightful about the nature of the economy, and of our politics, and how they have changed together: newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…
(Yes it took me two months to get to this issue)
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California, After Riding a Boom, Braces for Hard Times
Early hopes for a quick rebound from the pandemic have yielded to worries about its long-term impact on state finances and the governor’s ambitious agenda.
Emily Badger
Before covid, California was talking about raising taxes to spend more on schools and affordable housing.
Those progressive goals are now at risk, too, as with everything else... from @ConorDougherty
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Trump Is Selling White Grievance. The Suburbs Aren’t Buying It.
As the president casts himself as a bulwark against “angry mobs,” there are signs that he is alienating voters in bedroom communities who view him as a deeply flawed messenger on issues of race.
Riots Long Ago, Luxury Living Today
High-end development has transformed some Black neighborhoods decades after they were scarred by unrest. And not by coincidence.
Emily Badger
In some cities, high-end redevelopment has risen directly on top of neighborhoods historically scarred by rioting.
That is not a coincidence.
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Emily Badger
I've been revisiting a lot of history about 1960s urban unrest — and kept coming back to the thought that some of those scarred neighborhoods are the sites today of gentrification fights.
In these places, disinvestment cleared the land for reinvestment.
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Is “Covid Flight” a Thing?
Many Americans, especially younger Americans, moved out of cities this year. Will they come back?
Chicago Gun Violence Spikes and Increasingly Finds the Youngest Victims
Nine children under the age of 18 have been shot dead in Chicago since June 20.
Muni expects to lose the majority of its bus lines permanently as financial devastation mounts
Up to 40 of the bus lines that San Francisco cut at the beginning of the pandemic are not coming back unless the city finds a new revenue spigot, transportation chief Jeffrey Tumlin said this week. Just about every aspect of San Francisco’s...
Meet the Supporters Trump Has Lost
A significant majority of people who voted for him in 2016 are planning to do so again. What is different about those who’ve had a change of heart?
Emily Badger
"Covid was the turning point. It’s the thing that touches home with everybody.”
Revealing interviews with 2016 Trump voters who won't vote for him this year
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What Black America Knows About Quarantine
White people are protesting against being trapped at home. Black people know what it feels like to really be trapped.
Biden Is Getting a Lot of Advice on His V.P. Here’s What Voters Think.
A large majority of voters say race should not be a factor in his decision, and none of the best-known candidates has emerged as a favorite.
Emily Badger
91 percent of Black voters in battleground states said race shouldn't be a factor as Joe Biden picks his running mate
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Arizona ‘Overwhelmed’ With Demand for Tests as U.S. System Shows Strain
American coronavirus testing remains fragmented, as in the early days of the pandemic, and the bottlenecks are the same ones, too.
Showing Strength With White Voters, Biden Builds Lead in Battleground States
A nine-point advantage across six key states, including leads of at least six points in each of them.
Emily Badger
Really interesting battleground-state poll result: nytimes.com/2020/06/25/ups… pic.twitter.com/EsDFziZ7iu
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Biden Takes Dominant Lead as Voters Reject Trump on Virus and Race
A New York Times/Siena College poll finds that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is ahead of the president by 14 points, leading among women and nonwhite voters and cutting into his support with white voters.
Emily Badger
"The dominant picture that emerges from the poll is of a country ready to reject a president whom a strong majority of voters regard as failing the greatest tests confronting his administration."
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Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, on Who’s Hurt by Defunding Police
“You are eliminating one of the few tools that the city has to create middle-class incomes for black and brown folks.”
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Emily Badger
Good interview with Lori Lightfoot: nytimes.com/interactive/20… pic.twitter.com/99BTQE8bMC
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Rising Seas Threaten an American Institution: The 30-Year Mortgage
Climate change is starting to transform the classic home loan, a fixture of the American experience and financial system that dates back generations.
Emily Badger
“Conventional mortgages have survived many financial crises, but they may not survive the climate crisis.”
Such a smart @cflav piece on how rising seas could affect the 30-year mortgage
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The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts
Racism is at the heart of our nation’s inequality.
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Emily Badger
This is the difference in male incarceration rates between majority-Black and majority-white neighborhoods across dozens of metros: nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @patrick_sharkey @KeeangaYamahtta @iarynam pic.twitter.com/MtRA7mu0SH
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How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time?
A review of publicly available data in three areas reveals that much of an officer’s job revolves around handling routine calls rather than violent crime.
Emily Badger
Across three cities that publicly post such data, police departments consistently spent only about 4% of their time on violent crime: nytimes.com/2020/06/19/ups… pic.twitter.com/N9O5jKUw6L
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The changing geography of COVID19
New cases of COVID19 are now as prevalent in red counties as in blue counties, for the first time in this pandemic. The geography of new COVID19 cases is shifting toward places that are warmer, younger, have more crowded housing units, and are...
Black Tulsans, With a Defiant Juneteenth Celebration, Send a Message to Trump
The president arrives in a city that is in the midst of addressing long-ignored racist history. People there believe the country as a whole could learn a lot from them.
Trump administration's 'sloppy' work has led to Supreme Court losses
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling stopping President Donald Trump from rescinding protections for "Dreamers" immigrants marked the second time in a year that he lost a major case because Chief Justice John Roberts faulted his administration for...