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Senior reporter @HuffPost Author, THE TEN YEAR WAR & SICK Lecturer @UMichigan Fan of Red Sox, Dolphins, Wolverines Proud husband & dad

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Don't know if Joe Biden will step aside

Don't know if Kamala Harris will become nominee

But in case he does and she does, here's a look back at an episode that helped cement perceptions of her -- and why it's more complicated than commonly remembered
www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...

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The Project 2025 plan includes Medicaid block grants/per capita caps but they are wildly unpopular. Per KFF only 28% of U.S. adults support funding caps while 71% want Medicaid financing to remain as-is. 86% of beneficiaries support funding remaining as-is. #healthpolicy
www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

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One fallout from Thursday’s debate is that it creates a permission structure for Biden aides and staffers to now voice their qualms to the press. See, for example: www.axios.com/2024/06/30/t...

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Biden stepping aside? High risk

Biden staying on the ticket? High risk

My newsletter thoughts on the alternatives (esp. Harris and Whitmer) and how to weigh them open.substack.com/pub/citizenc...

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nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...

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My article tells the story of what happened to Andy afterwards, but also what happened before

How our threadbare mental health system helped bring him to the moment where he was sitting in that ER, waiting for care

And that experience is so common www.huffpost.com/entry/mental... (4)

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One night in 2021, his sister took him to an ER because he was experiencing severe psychosis

The hospital planned to admit him; she kept waiting to hear that he was in a room

But after 16+ hours, the call she got was from police

Andy had vanished www.huffpost.com/entry/mental... (3)

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The focus of the story is Andy Neiman, a gifted actor/playwright from St. Louis

He was a brother and son, husband and father

For 20+ years he’d been living with bipolar disorder www.huffpost.com/entry/mental... (2)

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Today at @HuffPost I tell the story of an actor, his family and their tragic encounter with America’s mental health care system

The article has been in the works for more than a year

Its roots lie in professional & personal experiences that go back decades www.huffpost.com/entry/mental... (1)

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So all those polls showing soft Biden support among Black voters, especially younger Black men

How serious a problem? What's behind the sentiments?

To find out, I sat down with a group in Detroit -- then talked to some organizers as well

Here's what I heard www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...

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Here @polgreen.bsky.social did the most unusual thing -- went to Columbia, actually spent the time to see/understand what was going on, then wrote about it all without trying to hide/run away from complexities and contradictions

Sure could use more of this www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/o...

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If you want to know how Trump would govern, you can try picking through the word salad of what he says about abortion, Obamacare and other issues

Or you could just look at what he did last time www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

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Expect to hear a lot about Rx drug prices in the State of the Union tomorrow, because Biden is going to talk about what he and the Democrats have already done -- and a few things they'd like to do next www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

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This is maddening: New polling conducted by Dems finds that an alarmingly small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump's most blatant authoritarian threats, such as his "dictator" quote.

This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/

Link:
newrepublic.com/article/1795...

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Trump was in Michigan last week, blasting Biden for his support of electric vehicles

Not the first time and not the last, I’m sure

I wrote about the case Biden can make/is making — and why the issue could loom large in November www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

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“The effect would be to create a second Trump administration that would attack abortion rights and abortion access from a variety of angles & could be stopped only by courts that the first Trump administration had already stacked with conservative judges.” www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...

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Key argument: Biden isn't too old to be president. But he's too old to run for president. Or, more precisely, age doesn't limit Biden's ability to make decisions, manage government, etc. But it limits his ability to project strength, defend his record and attack Trump. Important distinction.

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* Thinking about it partly because I teach a history class and we just covered Truman’s push for national health insurance. Widely remembered as a failure, for obvious reasons, it also laid the foundation for what became Medicare and Medicaid. A lesson in that.

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Been thinking a lot about Harry Truman’s 1948 campaign against the Do-Nothing Congress — and whether Biden has a similar opportunity

Here’s Nate Cohn in the Times making that very argument www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/u...

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Easy to get bored, disappointed and/or exasperated that we're heading into Biden-Trump 2.0

But this campaign is different -- in part, because we know a LOT more about the two men on the ticket

www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

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agree. can see a case for not nominating robbie. but gerwig?!

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No Best Director nod for Greta Gerwig, no Best Actress for Margot Robbie Unbelievable Or believable, because I saw Barbie and this is basically what the movie is about

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My article is about the rarely discussed policy implications of a second Trump term

Last week I wrote about some initiatives Biden and Democrats have enacted — an agenda that, like its GOP counterpart, gets little attention

Yes, you may detect a theme www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

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Understandably That was one of the worst ref misses I’ve ever seen

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A gay pastor

A conservative megachurch

A school board in turmoil

For the past year, I’ve followed the fights over sexuality, gender & youth tearing apart a California suburb

Here’s my story on what happened — and what’s really at stake in these battles www.huffpost.com/entry/church...

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No opinion on the Colorado ruling. Haven’t read it, or the analysis. But twitter/x already full of posts calling the justices “traitors.” Many from handles whose names or bios reference guns. Which is a little scary, if altogether predictable.

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Wow.

Deeply reported inside story of Dobbs, including Alito orchestrating things, Breyer & Roberts trying to peel off Kavanaugh for a compromise and the leak (source unknown) short-circuiting the effort. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/u...

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