Jonathan Chait
Writer for New York magazine. Tweets with links are intended as prompts to read the linked story, not self-contained arguments substituting for the linked story
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The Limits of Desegregation in Washington, D.C.
Hugh Price and his family fought for him to be one of the first Black students at his all-white high school in Washington, D.C. But once he was there, he “couldn’t wait for it to be over.”
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An episode in DC history I didn't know about, via @AdamHSays: integration of DCPS in the 1950s
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Biden’s ‘Will you shut up, man’ now a T-shirt featuring the U.P.
It was one of the most memorable one-liners of the first presidential debate.
Trump Controlled the Tone of the First Debate, But Biden Controlled the Message
A tactical success but a strategic defeat for a punch-drunk president.
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Trump ended the debate having sucked himself so completely into his vortex of self-pity that his message was unrecognizable to anybody but a Fox News addict.
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Here Are All Trump’s Advance Excuses for Biden’s Debate Performance
From brain pills to secret earpieces.
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Trump: Roided-out Joe Biden will use his hidden earpiece, advance answers, and sinister basement lair to cheat his way to victory
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Trump’s Tax Returns Show Lying Is His Only Marketable Skill
Scamming reporters, customers, and tax authorities is his art form.
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The New York Times series on Trump's tax returns shows a single throughline that he has followed across his career in business and politics
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An author apologizes for an Inside Higher Ed article he recently wrote (opinion) | Inside Higher Ed
Matthew J. Mayhew apologizes for an article that he recently wrote for Inside Higher Ed and describes beginning a long process of antiracist learning.
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The obsequious tone of the groveling should be a red flag that there's something seriously awry with this mode of discussion
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Bob Woodward: "I was not going to hide" my opinion on Trump
"I did not want to join the ranks of the Senate Republicans."
Trump's millions from Turkey and the Philippines are corrupt
When President Trump speaks glowingly of brutal strongmen atop the governments in Turkey and the Philippines, remember that he’s making millions of dollars in these countries with the tacit approval of these authoritarian governments.
Democrats Are Moving Fast on the Filibuster. Joe Biden Isn’t Yet.
Nearly everything the party wants to achieve probably hinges on a procedural step their candidate may refuse to take.
Voters Believe Winner of Election Should Fill Court Vacancy, Poll Shows
A Times/Siena College poll showed that 56 percent said the next president should nominate a Supreme Court justice. And Joe Biden retained a clear lead over President Trump, 49 to 41 percent.
As they rally behind Trump's pick, GOP senators struggle to explain refusal to move on Obama's nominee
Sen. Cory Gardner was blunt in 2016 about why he thought a Supreme Court seat should stay vacant despite then-President Barack Obama's demand to fill it.
Now We Know What Would Have Happened If Joe McCarthy Became President
The surprising thing is not McCarthy’s rise to power, but why it took so long for somebody to try the same thing again.
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@AliVelshi I read a McCarthy biography, and the comparison is pretty eerie. It's even worse: Trump is McCarthy if McCarthy had the powers of the presidency
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‘I Feel Sorry for Americans’: A Baffled World Watches the U.S.
From Myanmar to Canada, people are asking: How did a superpower allow itself to be felled by a virus? And why won’t the president commit to a peaceful transition of power?
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I'm used to this country being hated overseas, but @hkbeech shows that a lot of them just pity us now. Brutal.
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Trump’s Threats of Bloodshed Are Off Message, Republicans Worry
Every time Trump says he’s an authoritarian, it just feeds into the baseless liberal paranoia that he’s some kind of “authoritarian.”
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Republicans worry that Trump's threats of destroying the republic in a bloodbath are off message
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Genghis Khan’s ill-advised threat to burn Samarkand to cinders just feeds into the narrative that he’s some kind of "bloodthirsty conqueror."
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Sink or Swim
The GOP’s Dickensian fix for health care.
When you consider the differences between Democrats and Republicans on health care, you probably think in terms of scale. Democrats want to enact a big reform, while Republicans favor incremental progress....
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@BillKristol Bill, 10 years ago plenty of mainstream conservatives, including Jeffrey Anderson, the Standard's health care writer, argued that "personal responsibility" precluded cross-subsidizing those too poor or sick to afford their own coverage
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Lawmakers say Trump’s health orders carry little weight
Nicholas Bagley, a professor at University of Michigan’s law school, said: “Unless there’s a law that prohibits the conduct in question, or unless the president is exercising a po…
Economic Forecast: Biden Plan Will Create 7 Million More Jobs Than Trump
Average household incomes will also increase nearly $5,000.
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Biden just cited this Moody's Analytics analysis that his economic plan will create 7 million more jobs than Trump
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Study finds Biden and a Democratic Congress would produce a faster recovery than Trump or a GOP Senate
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Forecast finds Biden's plan would produce more jobs and higher incomes for evey\rybody but the very rich
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Trump Finally Releases Fake ‘Plan’ to Protect Preexisting Conditions
We’ve been waiting “two weeks” for almost four years.
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The main problem with Trump's plan to protect preexisting conditions is that it's not a plan
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The Economy of World War II Proved a Green New Deal Is Possible
Americans didn’t have to choose between guns and butter during the war. And they don’t need to choose between prosperity and sustainability today.
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Via @EricLevitz, a point in favor of massive Green New Deal spending is that it can increase the size and skills of the workforce. nymag.com/intelligencer/… pic.twitter.com/yzfWfwJA2D
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