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Policy
early and often
Jan. 11, 2023
Conservatives Clarify That They’re Pro-Boss, Not Pro-Market The right’s revealing opposition to ending noncompete agreements.
By Eric Levitz
conservatism
Feb. 9, 2021
5 Flaws in the Conservative Case Against Biden’s Child Allowance The American Enterprise Institute warns that if we rescue millions of kids from poverty, single moms will work one less hour a week.
By Eric Levitz
health care
Dec. 28, 2020
COVID Is Killing State-Level Efforts to Make Health Care a Right By blowing holes in budgets — and making heroes out of hospitals — the pandemic set back coverage expansions in states throughout the country.
By Eric Levitz
Learning to Live in the Valley of Uncertainty For many critical coronavirus questions, like when schools should reopen, we simply do not have clear answers.
By David Wallace-Wells
coronavirus
Mar. 17, 2020
Who Should Get a Coronavirus Bailout and How? Congress needs to go big or the economy’s going to hell.
By Eric Levitz
agriculture
June 16, 2019
America Loves the Idea of Family Farms. That’s Unfortunate. Every four years, presidential candidates fall over themselves to praise family farming — propping up a hard, unsustainable agricultural practice.
By Sarah Taber
vision 2020
Apr. 15, 2019
From Breezy Beto to Wonky Warren: How Candidates Use Policy Policies can be an ideological marker, a signature, or even an identity.
By Ed Kilgore
Emails Shed Light on Amazon’s Cozy Relationship With the U.S. Government An Amazon executive advised the federal government on a lucrative online marketplace before the passage of a law that created it.
By Brian Feldman
climate change
Sept. 17, 2018
Voters Are Ready for a Green New Deal. Are Democrats? America currently lacks the political will for radical action on climate change — but the American people don’t.
By Eric Levitz
How a Federal Job Guarantee Could Lower Crime & Help the Formerly Incarcerated California wildfires and the prison strike show us that the incarcerated are valuable workers. We should help them be productive when they leave, too.
By Vanessa A. Bee
Maybe Republicans Just Don’t Do Policy For all their differences, the Bush and Trump White Houses share an indifference toward policy development as opposed to politics and ideology.
By Ed Kilgore
D.C.’s Liberal Civil Servants Are Horrified at the Prospect of Life Under Trump They are wrestling with the question of whether to quit as an act of conscience, or stay and fight for their values.
By Marin Cogan
Is Hillary’s Wonkiness Wasted on a Polarized America? She hasn’t gotten much love for her policy chops in either the primaries or the general.
By Ed Kilgore
Trump’s Parasitic Policy Strategy He begs, borrows, and steals proposals where he can find them. What happens if he wins?
By Ed Kilgore