Joel Dodge
Joel Dodge writes about politics, law, and domestic policy for The Week and at his blog. He is a member of the Boston University School of Law's class of 2014.
Latest articles by Joel Dodge
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2020 Democrats haven't been asked the hardest question on Medicare-for-all
opinion Forget taxes. Someone needs to ask them about job losses.
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Trump 2020 is Bush-Cheney '04 on steroids
opinion George W. Bush won re-election with 4 strategic plays. Donald Trump is revamping all of them.
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Trump's bogus attack on Medicare-for-all
opinion His stunningly disingenuous op-ed in USA Today reveals the true nature of conservatism
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How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat one of Congress' most powerful Democrats
The Explainer What the Democratic left can learn from the young socialist's stunning victory
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Trump's America: Smaller, meaner, and increasingly unexceptional
opinion How Trump put kids into cages and shattered the country's self-image
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Paul Ryan's final surrender
opinion It's Trump's party now
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Trump's defense of white supremacists is really a defense of himself
opinion Why the president needs to believe "fine people" can ally with neo-Nazis
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Republicans have a new welfare queen: The sick glutton
opinion The GOP only wants Americans of good moral fiber to get health care
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There is no dealmaker on Earth crafty enough to save TrumpCare
opinion The GOP is simply stuck — and no amount of negotiating can save it
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Why the GOP's latest split over ObamaCare was entirely predictable
The Explainer As Republicans finally begin sweating the details of a replacement plan, old philosophical fissures are reappearing
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Don't listen to Paul Ryan: The GOP is still the party of makers and takers
opinion Ryan has disavowed his previous rhetoric. But the GOP's policy proposals haven't changed.
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Why Hillary Clinton's perfect running mate is... Joe Biden
opinion Four more years!
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What this new experiment in Chicago can teach us about combating poverty
opinion A tweak to a powerful anti-poverty tool is yielding encouraging results
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The conservative case for the Supreme Court to uphold ObamaCare
opinion It's all about protecting the rights of states
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How Hillary Clinton can be a populist without scaring off Big Business
opinion When it comes to fighting income inequality, what's good for workers is often good for corporations, too
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Sorry, GOP, tax cuts don't pay for themselves
opinion But it wouldn't hurt the Democrats to claim that their priorities do
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How to roll back creeping segregation in our schools
opinion Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the American education system remains racially divided. It doesn't have to be that way.
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Sorry, conservatives: America is not even close to being a colorblind country
opinion Ta-Nehisi Coates' monumental essay on black reparations in The Atlantic demolishes the idea that the civil rights struggle is behind us
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Marco Rubio's proposal to fight income inequality is pretty good — but it could be better
opinion Reform-minded conservatives want to strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit. We should be reforming the Child Tax Credit on similar lines.
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It takes one to tango: Why Obama's government by executive action is here to stay
opinion The new EPA rules are a template for how Democrats can govern in an era of extreme polarization
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What Paul Ryan could learn from Robert Kennedy about reforming the welfare state
opinion The liberal lion didn't like welfare, either. But his objections only accentuate the cruelty of the modern GOP's anti-poverty platform.
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Why the GOP wants to 'divide and conquer' the poor
opinion The conservative approach to poverty alleviation is rooted in outdated notions of who does and doesn't deserve aid
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The real reason millennials should embrace ObamaCare
opinion Younger Americans bear the brunt of ObamaCare's costs. But that is in keeping with the law's spirit of solidarity.
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Time to kill the ObamaCare employer mandate
opinion And move beyond an outdated health-care system that relies way too heavily on employer-based insurance
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