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American Rescue Act
December 28, 2022
Tori Otten
Biden’s Covid-19 Cupboard Is Growing Bare
As the funding that helped turn the tide of the pandemic dries up, a dire burden mounts on the backs of uninsured Americans.
September 5, 2022
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Timothy Noah
The Surprisingly Disappointing Reign of Marty Walsh, Biden’s Labor Secretary
He’s a nice guy, and the unions like him. But he doesn’t have much of an agenda and doesn’t seem to want one.
January 31, 2022
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Grace Segers
The Children Joe Manchin Left Behind
Why did the West Virginia senator kill the biggest expansion of the social safety net since LBJ’s Great Society?
January 14, 2022
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Grace Segers
Rosa DeLauro Hasn’t Given Up on the Democratic Agenda
“If we’ve already been lifting people out of poverty, why for heaven’s sakes would we want to throw them back in poverty?”
August 13, 2021
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Timothy Noah
The End of the Four-Year Presidency—for Democrats, Anyway
Republicans get four or eight years to rule; Democrats, only two. But Biden’s making excellent use of his limited time.
July 12, 2021
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Michael Tomasky
This Is an Important Week. Thank Rosa DeLauro.
Expanded child tax credit checks start going out to families this week. Finally, we have a government that is redistributing wealth in the right direction.
April 22, 2021
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Monica Potts
The Crisis in Home Care
The way we look after the elderly in this country is broken. But is funneling money into home care enough to solve the problem?
March 29, 2021
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Simon Lazarus
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Robert Litan
The Republican Legal Assault on Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Could Be Devastating for Democrats
Sloppy language might imperil the president’s landmark law—and future legislative and administrative reforms, too.
March 15, 2021
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Timothy Noah
The Covid Relief Bill Also Raises Taxes on the Rich
A little-talked-about provision in the recently passed measure shines a new light on the often bungled efforts of the past to rein in runaway inequality.
March 11, 2021
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Osita Nwanevu
Saving the Nation Cannot End With Biden’s Covid Relief Bill
Even as the president signs the American Rescue Plan Act into law, skittish Beltway moderates are already worried that he might want to do more.
March 9, 2021
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Alex Shephard
Republicans Aren’t Even Trying to Fight the Democrats’ Covid Relief Bill
They want to talk about Mr. Potato Head—and that’s been a good thing for the political media.
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