The biggest public works project in decades would be limited to four states.
Steven Waldman
Steven Waldman is chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition, cofounder of Report for America, and a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
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Perhaps Trump is Not Base Enough
Despite conventional wisdom, he’s barely getting half of “conservative/very conservative” voters.
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Why Aren’t Democrats Freaking Out About Jill Stein?
The Green candidate could pull Bernie voters away from Hillary.
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The Trump and Clinton Awfulness Relativity Index
The Awfulness Relativity Index compares the two candidates’ lies, misdeeds, and moments of malice.
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How Black Lives Matter and the Police Can Unite
They can take on the most anti-law enforcement group in America: the NRA.
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The Secret Boldness of Hillary’s College Loan Plan
The Clinton campaign is sitting on a very dramatic proposal without seeming to realize it.
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Obama’s Anti-Trump Secret Weapon
President Obama just put Trump In a very-classy-and-beauitful-gold-plated box with his announcement that he now supports an increase in Social Security benefits. If Trump supports the idea he pisses off mainstream Republicans at a time he’s trying to court them. If he opposes it, he annoys his own base of crotchety white seniors. Most of […]
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Hillary’s Shoutbursts
Embed from Getty Images On Meet the Press this weekend, they debated whether Hillary Clinton is being held to a double standard when she’s criticized for shouting and not smiling enough. I agree about the irksome smile-more complaint , but it’s not sexist to say Hillary should shout less. Truth is, most politicians in the […]
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Angry Voters Picking the Guy Who Will Make Them Angrier
Embed from Getty Images The punditocracy has decreed anger to be the official emotion of the 2016 election, with Donald Trump as the beneficiary. Little noticed: Trump has doubled down on the very approaches that caused the sense of betrayal in the first place. Theory one: they’re mad that Republican leaders didn’t deliver on their […]
