Jonathan Chait
Writer for New York magazine. [email protected]
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Enforcer or ‘choke point’? Kelly seeks to bring order to chaotic White House.
Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker — Washington Post 14h 4 tweets
Some complain that the retired general’s style stifles Trump’s spontaneity — and cuts him off from his base.
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Jonathan Chait Who could this Breitbart editor be? It is a mystery.  10h ago
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Colin Kaepernick: The World’s 100 Most Influential People
Time 157d 4 tweets
Quarterback with conviction
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Jonathan Chait Kaepernick's "willingness to take a position at personal cost is now part of our American story" --  13h ago
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Sarah Palin Sebastian Gorka Campaign Roy Moore Alabama
C-SPAN.org 31h 1 tweets
Sarah Palin and Sebastian Gorka address supporters of Roy Moore, who is trying to unseat Senator Luther Strange in the Alabama Senate Republican primary runoff on September 26.
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Republicans Threaten Alaska If Murkowski Turns Down Bribe
Jonathan Chait — Daily Intelligencer 33h 2 tweets
“Why should the nation continue to send outsize taxpayer funds to a state that is single-handedly condemning Americans to ObamaCare?”
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Jonathan Chait Republicans to Murkowski: Nice state you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it.  39h ago
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Jonathan Chait Republicans are back to threatening to harm Alaska if Murkowski turns down their bribe  38h ago
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We're So Cillizza'd
Lawyers, Guns & Money 27h 1 tweets
CNN’s Editor At Large does a little of the ol’ Both Sides Do It with respect to the extraordinary effort of Republicans to eliminate health coverage for tens of millions of people with a quarter-assed bill that will be subject to none of the typical
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Sorry I can’t go to your thing. I must call my senator to plead for my life.
Alexandra Petri — Washington Post 45h 3 tweets
A note from the near future.
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Jonathan Chait "I am sorry I cannot make it to your event, but I have to call Congress every eight minutes to plead for my life."  38h ago
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Donald Trump Can't Lose
John McCormack — Weekly Standard 40h 4 tweets
Out of 100 members of the United States Senate, precisely one man—Alabama's Jeff Sessions—endorsed candidate Donald Trump while the Republican presidential nomination was hotly contested. So it's not terribly surprising that the Senate GOP primary to
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GOP Plan to Repeal Obamacare for Everybody But Alaska Possibly Unconstitutional
Jonathan Chait — Daily Intelligencer 2d 2 tweets
“All Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.” So, no special Alaska deal?
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Jonathan Chait Repealing Obamacare for everybody but Alaska might not be constitutional  2d ago
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Jonathan Chait Repealing Obamacare for everybody but Alaska but not be constitutional  2d ago
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Black Liberty Matters
Jacob T. Levy — Niskanen Center 3d 16 tweets
Improving Policy, Advancing Liberty
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Jonathan Chait Great essay on libertarianism and racism. So heartening to see libertarians taking this seriously.  2d ago
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The “Alaska Purchase” Is Probably Unconstitutional – Whatever Source Derived
Brian Galle — Medium 2d 1 tweets
As Republican leadership searches for the 51st vote in favor of Cassidy-Graham-Heller, their apparently randomly chosen vehicle for…
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Jonathan Chait Persuasive-sounding argument by Georgetown law prof Brian Galle that the Alaska purchase in unconstitutional  2d ago
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There are 3 types of single-payer 'concern trolls' — and they all want to undermine universal healthcare
Adam H. Johnson — latimes.com 2d 1 tweets
Meet the nuance troll, the deficit troll and the feasibility troll.
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Jonathan Chait Anybody who wants well-designed policy proposals is a "troll," argues  2d ago
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Experts Keep Finding New Terrible Things in the Republicans’ Shoddy Repeal Bill
Jonathan Chait — Daily Intelligencer 3d 1 tweets
New unintended consequences keep popping up.
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Jonathan Chait Health care analysts keep finding terrible new things in the Republicans' shoddy repeal bill  3d ago
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Senate Republicans Are Abdicating Their Governing Responsibility
Jonathan Chait — Daily Intelligencer 3d 4 tweets
Can you imagine being accused of sponsoring a law that would hurt millions of people, and your response is “We have a deadline”?
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Jonathan Chait Imagine being accused of hurting millions and lying about it, and your response is, "we have a deadline"  3d ago
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Jonathan Chait The goal of every repeal plan has been to foist responsibility on to some set of politicians other than themselves.  3d ago
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Jonathan Chait The Senate Republican plan to rush through repeal is an abdication of governing responsibility  4d ago
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The G.O.P. Bill Forces States to Build Health Systems From Scratch. That’s Hard.
Margot Sanger-Katz — Nytimes.com 3d 4 tweets
Every state would need to make political choices and build brand-new systems in only two years. Remember what happened with HealthCare.gov?
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Prosecutors, not just police, can also play a part in the abuse of black lives
Brando Simeo Starkey — The Undefeated 3d 0 tweets
  Various players, during last weekend’s slew of NFL games, reignited the protest efforts against racial injustice. Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael …
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The Sponsors Of Obamacare Repeal Are Trying To Fool America -- And Fellow Republicans
Jonathan Cohn — HuffPost 4d 4 tweets
Here's what they're not telling you, or their colleagues, about the bill.
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How Cassidy-Graham Would Make Single Payer More Likely
Jonathan Chait — Daily Intelligencer 4d 2 tweets
“Hell no to Berniecare” is literally Lindsey Graham’s argument for repealing Obamacare.
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Jonathan Chait Lindsey Graham is selling his repeal as a way to prevent single-payer. It would actually make it more likely.  5d ago
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Jonathan Chait Lindsey Graham is selling repeal as a way to troll Bernie Sanders. It would actually make Berniecare more likely.  4d ago
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Hillary Clinton picked the perfect town to kick off her book tour
Ben Terris — Washington Post 4d 1 tweets
The crowds outside the theater made it clear: Washington, D.C. is still Clinton Country.
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Jonathan Chait Hilariously meta piece covering Clinton fans the way the media has been covering Trump fans  4d ago
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It Took Twitter Only 90 Minutes to Track and Knock Out a Nazi
Jake Swearingen — Select All 5d 2 tweets
Anti-fascist Twitter users in Seattle IDed and helped locate a man wearing a swastika armband.
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Jonathan Chait It's horrifying that so many on the left can't imagine the dangers of using violence on political enemies  5d ago
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Libertarians have more in common with the alt-right than they want you to think
John Ganz — Washington Post 4d 1 tweets
Freedom-lovers may say they share nothing with the racially-motivated right. But history suggests otherwise.
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Jonathan Chait Good op-ed on the connections between right-libertarianism and the alt-right  5d ago