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February 27, 2023
Republicans Won the East Palestine Messaging War Because Democrats Never Showed Up for Battle
But here’s how Biden, Buttigieg, and the rest of the party can take control of the narrative about the train disaster in Ohio.
by Alex Shephard
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Events have conspired to give the president a chance to start putting the grand economic vision he articulated during the State of the Union into practice.
by Michael Tomasky
The rise in undergraduate degrees was supposed to increase prosperity and cut economic inequality. Biden’s student debt relief plan, which is being challenged at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, proves otherwise.
by Jack Schneider and Jennifer C. Berkshire
How conservatives made him their icon and distorted his ideas
by Kim Phillips-Fein
It’s true—our entitlement programs face bankruptcy. The Republicans’ ideas are nonsense. Here’s what the Democrats should say.
by Timothy Noah
The White House claimed to want someone who’d lead the way on climate change. Banga’s only that guy if you think climate action means lots of private-sector stuff and vague promises.
by Kate Aronoff
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s idea for America to “separate by red states and blue states” isn’t just dumb and harmless. It’s also a window into a dangerous vision that’s ascendent in the Republican Party.
by Matt Ford
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