Harold Pollack
University of Chicago professor, fellow Century Foundation. RTs not equal endorsement. Index card book at:
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A Time to Speak: a speech by Charles Morgan
A speech by Birmingham, Ala. civil rights lawyer Charles Morgan after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church which killed four black girls on Sep...
Trump's War On Obamacare Is Also A War On Opioid Treatment
Undermining Medicaid would gut substance abuse programs and leave clinics struggling for funds.
Harold Pollack
Medicaid expansion remains essential to address the opioid epidemic. huffpost.com/entry/opioid-m… # via @HuffPostPol
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Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not.
Deborah Ramirez’s Yale experience says much about the college’s efforts to diversify its student body in the 1980s.
Social justice is the foundation of healthcare — and medical education l Opinion
Generations of health professionals were trained in the traditional medical education system that Dr. Goldfarb celebrates. Nonetheless, the U.S. is experiencing a regrettable state of health.
Column: Can Bernie Sanders’ authenticity sway Democrats?
Can the authenticity of Bernie Sanders win over Democrats?
James Corden Responds to Bill Maher's Fat Shaming Take
After seeing a segment on "Real Time with Bill Maher" addressing obesity rates in the United States, in which Bill's thesis is that fat shaming needs to make...
Harold Pollack
Sometimes comedians take the shortest path to what needs to be said || James Corden Responds to Bill Maher's Fat Shaming Take youtu.be/Ax1U04c4gaw via @YouTube
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How does naloxone distribution relate to opioid overdose deaths?
The $64,000 question — or however much money has been spent on naloxone, the lifesaving medication that rescues opioid overdose victims — is whether the distribution of the medication has an effect o...
The Ezra Klein Show
The Ezra Klein Show gives you a chance to get inside the heads of the newsmakers and power players in politics and media. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here.
Harold Pollack
I love Julián Castro's humane response to @ezraklein regarding many Americans' understandable anxieties about our country's changing demographics. Castro notes that many immigrants understand+respect these anxieties, too. Just a beautiful honest moment.
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Preparing for the Future of Fentanyl: Considerations for Congress in Tackling the Synthetic Opioid Crisis
The introduction of illicitly manufactured synthetic opioids like fentanyl to U.S. drug markets has presented new challenges for policymakers working to reverse this public health crisis. What do policymakers need to consider in their efforts to...
California Approves Statewide Rent Control to Ease Housing Crisis
The measure, affecting millions of tenants, is the biggest step in a nationwide surge of initiatives to address rising costs and homelessness.
Harold Pollack
Last decade has made me more partisan but also more policy moderate than many peers. I’m all for protecting tenants against arbitrary eviction. However, CA housing shortages is a supply-side problem. Rent control just doesn’t address these fundamentals.
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Business Leaders to Call on Congress to Act on Gun Violence
“Doing nothing about America’s gun violence crisis is simply unacceptable,” the heads of 145 companies tell senators in a letter.
Harold Pollack
Gun conservatives punch above their weight in the US Senate map, which implies they are far weaker in other domains of American life. Fascinating to see how this plays out as the majority that favors more stringent regulation becomes more focused+active.
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Buprenorphine Practitioner Locator | SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Harold Pollack
Anyone know a good resource on the strengths and limitations of the SAMHSA waivered physician list? samhsa.gov/medication-ass… Going to the DEA registrant data looks pretty pricey.
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Killing bin Laden: Cause for Reflection, Not Celebration
I’m grateful to the men and women of our intelligence services and armed forces who tracked down and killed Osama bin Laden. Their bravery and methodical professionalism is remarkable. To tell you the truth, I’m glad we just killed him, that he did...
Harold Pollack
This piece captures some of my thoughts on 9/11. One addendum had I wrote that now: just a colossal error of judgment to use vaccination as cover for intelligence gathering in that operation.
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Obamacare penalty exemptions
According to the IRS, 7.9 million tax filers were subject to the penalty for being uninsured in 2014, but 12.4 million were able to claim an exemption from the penalty, despite being uninsured in 2014. Again in 2015, the number of exemptions...
Which Health Policies Actually Work? We Rarely Find Out | The Incidental Economist
The following originally appeared on The Upshot (copyright 2019, The New York Times Company) and on page A13 of the print edition on September 10, 2019. A few
Immigration Judge Promoted by Trump Threatened 2-Year-Old Migrant Boy With a Dog Attack, Says Report
The judge reportedly told the 2-year-old Guatemalan boy: “If you don’t stop talking, I will bring the dog out.”
Republican Gerrymander Whiz Had Wider Influence Than Was Known
Tens of thousands of maps and documents kept on computer files by the Republican redistricting expert Thomas B. Hofeller show his work on a broad range of projects nationwide.
The Power of Prosecutors in the Decarceration Movement
A conversation featuring Emily Bazelon, author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, with Khalil Cumberbatch, Chief Strategist at New Yorkers United for Justice, and Matt Epperson, Associate...
Can the Right Escape Racism?
White identity politics has been partially suppressed before. Here’s how it could happen again.
How Democracy Dies, American-Style
Sharpies, auto emissions and the weaponization of policy.