Jon Healey
Deputy Editorial Page Editor for @latimes. I write about tech, econ/fiscal policy and healthcare, typically in a bloodless fashion. See https://t.co/oYFIM5OCXO
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Opinion: The Supreme Court just restored another piece of Obamacare — years too late
What Sen. Marco Rubio and company did here is outrageous, and it's gratifying to see the Supreme Court justices push back.
Opinion: The New York Post puts Twitter and Facebook in a no-win position
Social media platforms took far too long to start enforcing their rules against campaign-related content and major political figures.
Opinion: At debate with Biden, Trump still has no healthcare plan to offer
Declaring that you have a plan to provide great, affordable healthcare does not cause such a plan magically to exist.
Opinion: Trump says his visa crackdown will help put Americans back to work. It won't
It won't help the U.S. economy recover if businesses that are trying to reopen or expand can't do so because they can't find the workers they need.
That 75-year-old man bloodied by Buffalo police is Antifa? Come on
People occasionally have their attention riveted by something so important, it intrudes on their daily lives. Last week, that was Martin Gugino.
Twitter waited three years too long to enforce its rules on Trump
Twitter has ignored Trump's line-crossing for so long that any move it makes now invites accusations that it's trying to influence the election.
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Jon Healey
Twitter waited three years too long to enforce its rules on @realDonaldTrump
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A virologist answers the coronavirus questions you are too embarrassed to ask
Is it safe to have sex with my partner or with a person I met on Tinder? Can I pick my nose at home? Do I need to disinfect my groceries? A virologist answers.
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Jon Healey
The LA Times asks a virologist the questions you were too embarrassed to ask. Because they are, umm, embarrasing.
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Opinion: Giving everyone a $1,000 check will help the coronavirus downturn. But it's not enough
Trump and lawmakers are mulling sending checks to U.S. households to help mitigate the coming downturn. It's a big part of the answer, but just a part.
Opinion: Welcome to the debate stage, Michael Bloomberg. Got some questions for you
In his first debate appearance, Michael Bloomberg will face tough questions on his record as former mayor of New York City and as a media company owner.
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I channel @MattWelch (albeit not well) in this post about Bloomberg's governing philosophy
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The Piracy Arms Race
A major part of the online battle has been fought in two Manhattan offices, where file-sharing site eDonkey fends off attacks from Overpeer's cyber army.
Opinion: Impeachment testimony is also giving Trump a quid pro quo defense
The House impeachment inquiry is gathering proof that Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, but not that he demanded a quid pro quo.
Three charts based on today's Census report show that the US middle-class is shrinking.... because they're moving up - AEI
The new animated "bar chart race" visualization above is a dynamic version of the second static chart, and both show the percent shares of US households by
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About that vanishing middle class: aei.org/publication/an… @Mark_J_Perry. One caveat: $100,000 in high-cost states like CA and NY isn't exactly "high income."
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Don’t claim to be inclusive of ‘everyone’ if you don’t want Trump supporters
The knitting site Ravelry banished signs of Trump support on the grounds that Trump promotes white supremacy.
Facebook’s response to the doctored Nancy Pelosi video was as spineless as ever
Facebook is happy to continue to provide a podium and a microphone to false posts. It will, however, turn down the volume if someone complains.
No, President Trump, China isn’t paying the bill for your tariffs
U.S. businesses and consumers are picking up the tab for Trump's China tariffs, to the detriment of the U.S. economy — at least for now.
Mitch McConnell has decided to stick his head firmly in the sand on the Mueller report
If McConnell really wants to move on from the Mueller report and Trump’s behavior, he could have the Senate tackle some major issues and queue up some consequential policy debates.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation is a mindless exercise in party loyalty — and we’re all the losers
Do we really want the Supreme Court to become a body of legislators in black robes?
Republicans obsessed with dismantling Obamacare and its protections for preexisting conditions are eating their own
Red states with high percentages of folks with preexisting conditions are leading the fight to eliminate the ACA.
Scott Pruitt was a human ethical lapse. The fight to replace him will be political gold for Democrats
President Trump now has the chance to nominate someone ethically upstanding to run the EPA into irrelevance.
If Trump wants to force the poor to work for their Medicaid, he'll need Congress to change the law
A federal judge rightly tosses Kentucky's attempt to impose work requirements on Medicaid.