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23 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Great set of stories at @theprospect today. As I mentioned earlier, here I am on who Biden needs to fire on the way in the door prospect.org/cabinet-watch/…
This feature from our latest issue by Bob Kuttner is remarkable. It's about the tricky business of lowering the partisan temperature while solving our tremendous challenges, which will ultimately inflame the right even further. Essential reading. prospect.org/justice/healin…
"Fortunately, much of the work of national healing happens not in Washington but on the ground... If we can begin with active listening and acknowledgment of common humanity, the recognition of common interests and political depolarization may follow." prospect.org/justice/healin…
On the other end of the spectrum, here's @HaroldMeyerson on the Trump bid to delegitimize the election.

prospect.org/politics/why-t…
And Gabrielle Gurley (@gurleygg) has another #DayOneAgenda installment on marijuana legalization, and how Biden is lagging behind his party—and voters—on this critical policy. #D1A
prospect.org/day-one-agenda…

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24 Nov
We have a great feature today about the Supreme Court. Liberals are despairing the Court being in conservative hands for a generation. But there's an important tool available to prevent the judiciary from dominating policy: Congress. (1/)
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Teaming up with @theintercept, @TheProspect has found dozens of rulings that were not decided on constitutional grounds, but on interpretations of the statute. In those cases, Congress can just briefly change the statute and nullify the ruling. prospect.org/justice/how-to… (2/)
This was the subject of the very first bill Barack Obama signed, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. And @rmc031 and @Marcia_Brown9 looked at 8 major issue areas and found ways to reverse court rulings through statutory interpretations. prospect.org/justice/how-to…
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3 Nov
Our writers are fanned out across the country. Follow @Marcia_Brown9 with canvassers in Philadelphia:
And @brittanyagibson is headed to Savannah, GA, to check out the energy at the polls there. She'll be in South Carolina this evening.
ICYMI here's Brittany's piece on Jaime Harrison and the infrastructure he's building in South Carolina. prospect.org/politics/jaime…
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19 Oct
Some choice passages from today's pieces released today from our family care issue (prospect.org/familycare):
"Every four years, Republicans and Democrats spar over which party will do more for working families... When it comes to helping people care for family members, though, the country is failing." prospect.org/familycare/why…
"We have a system where there is high demand for a highly valuable service, but in which the financial benefits flow not to the ones providing the service, but rather to the ones purchasing it." -@janellecj prospect.org/familycare/the…
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19 Oct
This is it! All this week, we will be running our special issue at @theprospect on family care: the current crisis and how we can fix it with a universal social insurance system. All of the stories can be found at prospect.org/familycare.
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Why do this now, two weeks before the election? Why during one of the busiest news periods in history are we devoting ourselves to covering the topic of family care? Because it intersects with everything that's been happening in 2020.
Family care—early childhood care and education, paid family and medical leave, & long-term care for the elderly and people with disabilities—has been in crisis in the U.S. for a long time. But the pandemic has brought it to a head, as Tasmiha Khan writes: prospect.org/familycare/how…
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14 Oct
More important than living in the "take the deal" past is what can happen between now and February to mitigate the damage. There are a few options:
1- It's beyond clear that the Fed needs to dispense with its reticence and use Section 14(2) authority to distribute short-term, endlessly rolled-over debt to cities and states prospect.org/coronavirus/un…
2- A Biden transition can use a kind of "forward guidance" to detail explicitly what relief will be passed ASAP in the new Congress & create certainty. They should lean on banks to advance short-term, 0-interest advances on individual relief. Long shot but worth a try.
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8 Oct
I guess I missed this story when it came out but I lived this settlement fight and reported on it for 5 years and wrote a book about it, and I haven't found a single correct fact in here. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Against my better judgment I'll give an example. One scene says Eric Schneiderman got to be in the First Lady's box at the State of the Union & head of the mortgage fraud task force, because Harris turned it down. The text says Harris was in a hotel room, but not where.
Harris' hotel room was in *DC*, and she was there because SHE WANTED TO BE CHOSEN for the position Schneiderman got. There was a back and forth between the two, jockeying for position. Why else would she be in a hotel room and not at home?
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