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From Paul Starr, a sobering note about expanding Medicaid in the holdout states. prospect.org/infrastructure/…

Democrats, Be Careful With the Medicaid Expansion - The American Prospect

The Medicaid expansion provisions of the reconciliation bill risk being overturned by the Supreme Court.

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The risk that the Supreme Court will overturn the Medicaid expansion provisions in the reconciliation package ought to shape decisions about what to keep and what to drop. It's a tough decision, but here's the case @TheProspect bit.ly/3BeqWBB
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Legal cases against a former president are unfolding as he tries to regain the presidency—an unprecedented situation. “We are not done with Trump, and he is not done with us,” @StarrProspect writes. prospect.org/justice/can-our…

Can Our Legal System Bring Donald Trump to Justice? - The American Prospect

His life has been a study in impunity. The criminal justice system may add another chapter.

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@theProspect. Trump has exposed problems that cannot be resolved without constitutional revisions. Let's start with the pardon power--so open-ended that it allows a president to pardon those who committed crimes for his benefit. bit.ly/3i9A6rs
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As difficult as amending the Constitution is, the pardon power is one area where Republicans might agree. They were outraged by Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich, just as Democrats are outraged by Trump's pardons now.
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But, in Trump's wake, we need a wider debate about limiting our chief executives. The threshold for impeachment and conviction is too steep. The provisions of Article 2 about presidential powers and their limits are too vague. Our system of checks and balances needs rethinking.
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Everyone said this was a referendum on Trump, and it was. But it was also a referendum on the fundamental questions of morality and justice that are the deeper sources of the American divide. ...@theProspect prospect.org/politics/libera…

Liberation Day 2020 - The American Prospect

One America just defeated another.

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The elite cultural institutions are not on their side. Demographic change is going against them. The cities that are the center of the cultural and demographic shifts have been growing economically, while small-town and rural America have been stagnant or declining...
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And so, on the day it became clear that Biden beat Trump, the cities erupted in celebration. One America defeated another, but ...the sides are still too evenly matched for either one to give up, the differences too fundamental just to be patched over.
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Pandemics are stress tests. They show whether a nation’s institutions and its leaders can meet their supreme responsibility to protect their people. With life itself at stake, pandemics reveal whose lives get protected and whose do not.@TheProspect prospect.org/coronavirus/pan…
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#COVID is a scourge, but one blessing is that it rarely strikes school-age children. International evidence suggests that children-to-adult infection is also rare. We need to move deliberately ahead with reopening schools and here's how.@TheProspect bit.ly/2XJYp6B
Children are thankfully being spared by #COVID19. But they also need to be spared from the misplaced anxieties of adults. At first, public-health authorities based their policies on schools on earlier experience with flu. Now we know this is different. prospect.org/coronavirus/we-…

We Need to Reopen Schools—but How? - The American Prospect

While more than 20 European countries have reopened schools, America seems unable even to approach the problem rationally.

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More than 20 European nations have reopened schools successfully and shown that there is a practical path forward here too.@TheProspect prospect.org/coronavirus/we-…

We Need to Reopen Schools—but How? - The American Prospect

While more than 20 European countries have reopened schools, America seems unable even to approach the problem rationally.

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The impact of #COVID19 has been concentrated among the aged, the immunocompromised, and individuals with underlying conditions. The US needs to protect vulnerable groups. But it does not need to keep schools closed to do so.... @TheProspect
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* We need clear alternatives to in-person classes for children and teachers at high risk of severe illness. * We need a commitment of federal funds to the states to prevent massive layoffs of teachers and other staff that will make it impossible to reopen schools safely...
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* And we need a collaborative process that would enable all relevant interests to be represented in policy. bit.ly/2XJYp6B
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