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Friday Q+A: The Democratic Party

Tornadoes Should Change How Liberals Talk About Climate With Middle America

The economic metrics may look good, but they’re bad metrics.

Friday Q+A: Why don't we care about our country's footprint abroad?

The Oppression Olympics.

The echo chamber of hate and violence.

Friday Q+A: Oxford, MI

We Don’t Have to Make the Same Mistakes on Omicron That We Made on Delta

Omicron.

The Untied State of America.

Friday Q+A: What's on your mind?

What’s really on trial in Kenosha and Glynn County?

We need a new way to measure COVID.

Friday Q+A: Inflation

If Joe Manchin Cares About Medicare, He Should Invest in the People Who Fund It

Medicare Disadvantage.

Friday Q+A: Talking about social justice.

Six takes on the Virginia election.

What toddler parenting taught me about global climate policy.

Friday Q+A: A new "framework"

Abdul in The New Republic: Biden’s Slippage Is Still Mainly About the Pandemic. That’s Good—Mostly.

The Logic of Vaccine Mix n’ Match.

Friday Q+A: Booster Bonanza

The hypocrisy of police rejecting vaccine requirements.

What Michigan’s Yemeni community can teach Democrats.

Friday Q+A: Striketober

Jon Gruden is yesterday’s coach. Ted Lasso is tomorrow’s.

Poor programs.

Friday Q+A: Regulating Big Tech

Facebook is a public health hazard.

Progressives Flexed.

Friday Q+A: Progressives flexed.

Republicans are capturing the Democratic party.

No, the pandemic isn’t the new normal.

Friday Q+A: Can Democrats reconcile on a reconciliation package?

Joe Biden’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad month.

It’s about policies, not a price tag.

Friday Q+A: What’s on your mind?

What rooftop solar taught me about tackling climate change.

Why you should care what happens in California’s recall election

Friday Q+A: 20 years later

Muslim Americans 20 years later.

Joe Biden’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week in context

Friday Q + A: Our Climate Future

Texas Taliban.

Back to School in a pandemic.

Friday Q+A: The American Future

War-hawking Talking Heads.

Full Approval.

Friday Q+A: Afghanistan.

The COVID-19 booster.

Afghanistan.

Friday Q+A: The IPCC Report

The generational dread of climate change.

Five takeaways from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Friday Q+A: What's on your mind?

Cori Bush & Nina Turner.

Parents, grandparents & the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Friday Q + A: Variants, vaccines, and some very frustrating circumstances

Understanding the CDC’s new masking guidelines.

Struggling to find employees? Be like Costco.

Friday Q+A: What's on your mind?

Vaccine verification >>> mask mandates.

The Olympic mirror.

Friday Q + A: What’s on YOUR mind?

Inside the $3.5 trillion reconciliation package

Five takes on the billionaire Space Race.

Friday Q+A: What's in an infrastructure plan?

On the futility of yelling “GO TO SLEEP!” at a toddler.

Critical Race Theory.

Medicare for All
 of our healthcare problems.

American healthcare devalues Black people.

The game of hospital monopoly.

Health Insurance 101

Friday Q+A: America Abroad

How does a pandemic end?

A new Alzheimer’s drug exposes our broken prescription drug system.

Friday Q+A: The Culture Wars

The Naomi Osaka controversy is about control.

Learning Tulsa’s Lesson.

Friday Q+A: The origins of COVID-19

Violent crime is up.

Palestine.

Friday Q+A: Occupied Palestine.

Gaza.

The CDC’s mask policy gamble.

Friday Q+A: The CDC's new mask guidelines

Jerusalem.

Elon Musk isn’t funny.

Friday Q+A Thread: The Vaccines Thread

The anatomy of “vaccine hesitancy,” and why it matters.

Why the “last mile problem” is keeping vaccines out of arms.

Vaccine Week #1: Stop thanking Big Pharma for your shot.

Friday Q+A Thread: President Biden's first 100 days.

Ten takeaways from President Biden’s Joint Address

Europe’s Super League & the fragility of corporate power.

Friday Q+A Thread: How do we end the killing of people of color at the hands of police?

Derek Chauvin is guilty. What about the system that created him?

What not to say when police murder a child.

Friday Q+A Thread: The 20 years war; a possible 4th surge; and the J&J pause.

What the Johnson & Johnson pause is really about.

Michigan needs to lock down.

Friday Q+A Thread: It ain't over 'til it's over.

Vaccine Passports: what you need to know.

Today’s college debt crisis is 2008’s housing bubble.

The Incision in the Washington Post.

Representing Asian Americans in culture and politics: An interview with filmmaker Frank Chi

Why doesn’t America mourn Black shooting victims?

WHO’s report is it, anyway? The murky origins of SARS-CoV-2.

Could work from home reshape the Senate?

Friday Q+A Thread: Voter suppression goes local.

A tragedy by two different names.

The state of Medicare for All in 2021.

The bitter alchemy of a hate crime.

Friday Q + A: Anti-Asian hate, misogyny, & gun violence

Italy’s back in lockdown. That should be our wake up call.

The world needs American vaccines, not bombs.

An American Rescue...from Reaganism?

"The era of big government" is BACK! Friday Q+A Thread!

Filibusted.

The royals’ racism shouldn’t surprise you.

Which vaccine should I take?

Texas Reopening to Own the Libs, "American Rescue Plan" COVID-19 Stimulus, & Vaccine Choice: Friday Live Q+A Thread!

Jail is deadly...even if you don’t go there.

$15 is the difference between “essential” and expendable.

The Friday Incision: Universal Basic Income with former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs

Biden needs to recruit artists in the fight against anti-vaxxers.

Four things to know about the 2020 life expectancy drop.

Texas, Life Expectancy, & Mitch McConnell: Friday Live Q+A Thread!

Stop telling Black people to "just trust science."

Five progressive policies West Virginians need out of Joe Manchin’s Senate.

Vaccines alone can’t save us.

The Friday Incision: Live Q+A Thread!

Why aren't we treating Donald Trump like we treat other terrorists?

Snakebit: COBRA Subsidies in the COVID Relief Bill Would Pay Health Insurers to Double-Dip in a Pandemic

How to Talk to Your Loved Ones About the Vaccine

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