Rachel Cohen
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Maryland Set for Political Shakeup as Senate President Resigns
Mike Miller has been a formidable barrier to progress for decades. He’s being replaced as state Senate president by Baltimore progressive Bill Ferguson.
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Why do we never hear of particularly progressive legislation coming out of Maryland, despite its Dem supermajorities? Mike Miller, who’s controlled the state Senate since 1987, is a one big reason. In January MD politics in are set to dramatically change
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D.C. Is Rapidly Gentrifying and the Fate of its Affordable Housing Hangs in the Balance
Photos by Darrow Montgomery, Illustration by Julia TerbrockFor D.C., the problem is major and it is imminent: How can the city avoid the fate of San Franci...
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I wrote this week's @wcp cover story on the future of D.C housing. Can the city avoid the fate of San Francisco? Will it?
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in D.C., just 5% of its market-rate housing is affordable to households earning up to the 60% of the area median income. The city lost 18,300 of these "naturally-occurring" affordable units between 2006-2017
for comparison: in Chicago, it's 26 percent
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The Gentrification Panic
The media’s obsession with a handful of trendy neighborhoods obscures the real story of urban America.
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"Put bluntly, Schuerman’s assertion that gentrification 'is all around us' is empirically unsupportable. But it’s telling that even a housing journalist would have this perspective." washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/novem… @whstancil reviews Newcomers for @monthly
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The progressive vision for economic growth, explained
Progressives have a plan to make the economy more fair. But do they have a plan to make it grow?
Labor, Ever So Gingerly, Tiptoes Into the Insurgency
Rep. Henry Cuellar’s anti-labor record pushes Texas organized labor toward primary challenger Jessica Cisneros.
Chicago Teachers Union Delegates Approve Tentative Deal But Strike Continues
The Chicago Teachers Union says the deal is contingent on the mayor agreeing to make up the days lost to the strike.
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"And to perhaps the surprise of Mayor Lightfoot, many parents stood by the teachers. Parents said they knew firsthand how bad conditions were because their children were living it."
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Harvard Grad Students Are Taking on the Trump Administration and Their Own School
A union formed by students who also work on campus just voted to authorize a strike even as the feds threaten to gut labor protections.
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More than 90 percent of the Harvard graduate student union (@hgsuuaw) just voted to authorize a strike. I wrote about the heated negotiations, and the @NLRB's efforts to end graduate student unions altogether
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New Jersey pupils with lunch debt banned from prom
A school district in the US city rejects a businessman's offer to pay off pupils' debts.
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"A businessman said he would settle the lunch debts but the school board rejected his offer."
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Katie Couric Steamrolls Sheryl Sandberg in Roving Vanity Fair Summit Interview
Sending a jolt through a luxurious and excessively polite afternoon in Beverly Hills, veteran journalist Katie Couric delivered a relentless series of hardball questions to Facebook chief operating…
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"Sending a jolt through a luxurious and excessively polite afternoon in Beverly Hills, veteran journalist Katie Couric delivered a relentless series of hardball questions to Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg on Tuesday."
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Freshman Dem Katie Hill denies improper relationship with aide
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Saying “denies improper relationship” in headline is a crappy choice, especially since story buries there is no proof one occurred! How about “Conservative website publishes private photos of Rep. Katie Hill, sparking Capitol Hill police investigation”
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Charter Movement Continues Taking Losses with Elizabeth Warren’s New Education Plan
Bernie Sanders sent shockwaves in May when he endorsed the NAACP’s call for banning for-profit charters. Warren matched and raised.
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NEW: Elizabeth Warren just released her plan for public education. I covered the policy highlights, and how they compare to proposals from Sanders and Biden
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Elizabeth Warren taking non-profit charter school fraud and self-dealing is a *big* deal in the world of education politics. That's an area Democrats have fastidiously avoided.
No doubt the pressure on her over last few months played a role
theintercept.com/2019/10/21/cha… pic.twitter.com/R0rOiOJL6u
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Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Cash as Democrats Struggle
That campaigns are now being fought largely online campaign is hardly a revelation, yet only one political party seems to have gotten the message.
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here is a very heavy-handed article featuring lots of political consultants who earn lots of money placing FB ads saying campaigns should be placing more FB ads
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Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
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nothing politicizes impeachment more than saying we need to rush through it asap so we we don't distract from 2020. i don't understand how this isn't painfully obvious
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Morgan Harper Raised More Than $300,000 in First Quarter
“What candidates like Morgan Harper and Jessica Cisneros are saying is that any Democrat representing a safe Democratic district should be put on watch.”
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Marie Newman, who is challenging @DanLipinski for Congress, raised $350,000 in the most recent fundraising period. Morgan Harper, taking on @RepBeatty, raised $323,000. Jessica Cisneros, challenging @RepCuellar, raised $310,000.
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NEW: Morgan Harper (@mh4oh) running a progressive primary challenger against @RepBeatty, raised $323,000 in the first quarter of her campaign
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Doctors, Once GOP Stalwarts, Now More Likely to Be Democrats
The historic shift, driven by changes in the business of medicine and women entering the profession, comes with the overall movement of college-educated people to the Democratic Party. The realignment is changing where physicians live and work, how...
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really fascinating article about how doctors, who used to be "America’s quintessential Republicans" in the 20th century — have moved to the left
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Nina Turner Helped Expand Cleveland’s Charter Schools
Nina Turner said she’s “definitely evolved” since her time in the Ohio state Senate, but she remains proud of pro-charter policies she helped pass.
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At the outset I'll say that I understand why Nina Turner would not be pleased with my story—theintercept.com/2019/09/30/nin… which looks at part of her record at odds with positions she holds today, and at odds with the positions of the Sanders campaign. That’s generally uncomfortable.
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Shoot Them in the Legs, Trump Suggested: Inside His Border War
Over a frenzied few days in the spring, an internal White House debate led to turnover in staff and a turning point for the president’s immigration agenda.
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In leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook against critics and the US government
Facebook employees are frustrated with the direction of the company, and they’re pressing Zuckerberg for answers.
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Zuckerberg: If Warren is elected & tries breaking up big tech, "I'd bet that we'll have a legal challenge..and win..does that still suck for us? Yeah—I mean I don't want to have a major lawsuit against our own government, but look..at the end of the day.."
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A cold call from someone she never met changed Elizabeth Warren's life. It was Harry Reid.
The ex-Senate majority leader boosted the 2020 contender's career at key points. Even she's not quite sure why.
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very interesting @aseitzwald read on Harry Reid's role bringing Warren into politics
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