Domestic policy editor, @nytimes. Former reporter on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Email: [email protected].
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NEW: Far-right social media sites like Gab are rife with Covid misinformation. Here, the tragic story of one Gab user and his grieving family. Randy Watt, 64, was not a Covid denier, but he did question authority. He took ivermectin and died of Covid-19.
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A year after Omicron swept through the U.S. and disrupted the holidays, Fauci does not foresee a repeat this year. From @SharonLNYT and @benjmueller: nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/po…
Two GOP lawmakers want answers from Amtrak after it gave six-figure bonuses to executives last year. From @bymarkwalker: nytimes.com/2022/11/04/us/po…
Pfizer announces encouraging findings about its new booster, though many questions remain. From @SharonLNYT: nytimes.com/2022/11/04/us/po…
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NEW: Progressives have figured out how to circumvent Republicans who won’t expand Medicaid: They take the question directly to the voters.
Six red states have passed ballot measures to expand Medicaid. Looks like South Dakota could be next. My report: nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/po…
Supporters of Medicaid expansion have succeeded in passing ballot measures in six states. The next test: South Dakota. From @SherylNYT: nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/po…
Less than one in 10 eligible Americans have received an updated Covid booster so far nytimes.com/2022/10/15/us/po…
In a bid to curb overdose deaths, a group in Rhode Island is preparing to open the first supervised drug consumption site legalized by a state nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/po…
The CDC is scrapping its list of Covid travel advisories for foreign countries. From @ChrisCameronNYT: nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/po…
The CDC says early data offers positive signs about the monkeypox vaccine, though the findings have many limitations nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/po…
With monkeypox cases on the decline, federal health officials are optimistic that the virus can be eliminated in the U.S. From @SherylNYT: nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/po…
TSA officers have discovered more than 4,600 guns at airport security checkpoints this year, @bymarkwalker reports nytimes.com/2022/09/21/us/po…
Some personal news: I’m starting a new job as the domestic policy editor for @nytimes. Excited to get started and very lucky to get to work with such a talented team.
The inimitable @thomaskaplan is taking on an exciting new role in the Washington bureau of The Times, starting this week as domestic policy editor. nytco.com/press/tom-kaplan-b…
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Morning, Twitter. I wrote about Ron DeSantis for the next @NYTmag: nytimes.com/2022/09/13/magaz…
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.@POTUS walks to the East Room to deliver remarks on the recent mass shootings and called for a Ban on Assault Weapons and New ‘Red Flag’ Laws.
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DEJA-VU—Once again, a president faces the unthinkable. And once again a president faces the limits of his power. My take on how @POTUS is dealing with another massacre of society’s most vulnerable. nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/po… – at Washington, DC
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Okay, I profiled Guy Fieri. nytimes.com/2022/05/23/dinin…
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New: McConnell wanted to go to Kyiv in part "to try to convey to the Europeans that skepticism about NATO itself expressed by the previous president was not the view of Republicans in the Senate," he said in an interview. nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/po…
New from @ktbenner: DOJ employees ask the Biden admin to grant time off to federal workers who need to travel out of state to obtain abortions nytimes.com/2022/05/18/us/po…
