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For weeks, the public messages about vaccines have been more negative than the facts warrant.Now we are seeing the cost: A large percentage of Americans wouldn't take a vaccine if
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Trump never cracked 47% of the national vote. He left office with a 39% approval rating. And polls show a majority of Americans favored his disqualification from future office.So why
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There is an important difference between taking steps that *appear* to reduce the spread of Covid and taking steps that actually reduce the spread of Covid.A thread... Cal Berkeley has
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A thread: Early in the pandemic, progressive, technocratic governments were clearly doing a better job at managing it than populist, right-wing governments. Consider Canada vs the U.S. Or E.U. vs
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A thread:The economy has performed much better under Democratic presidents than Republicans over the past century.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html(1/n) It’s true of GDP, jobs, incomes and other meas
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There’s some confusion about the meaning of the word “effective” in the vaccine trials. I tried to clear it up in today’s edition of The Morning.https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/briefing/vaccination-myanmar-coup-rochester-police.h
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Why do so many Democrats favor the elimination of the filibuster?Because the filibuster has been a huge benefit to the political right over the years. Yes, it has also occasionally
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I just took a 1,600-mile road trip from Washington to St. Louis and back. I was shaken by what I saw. (1/x) Almost everywhere I stopped — gas stations, rest
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Right now, public discussion of the vaccines is full of warnings about their limitations, like: They’re not 100 percent effective. And: Even vaccinated people may be able to spread the
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Affirmative action is one of those issues on which motivated reasoning is especially alluring, because there's evidence that allows both sides to persuade themselves that public opinion breaks their way.
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During the months that Joe Biden and Donald Trump were campaigning against each other, the following happened: 1.Vast sections of the American West caught on fire. More than five million
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The U.S. Senate is, in many ways, a giant affirmative-action program that benefits white people. How so?A thread... (1/n) The Senate gives disproportionate power to small states, as everyone knows.
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