Latest articles by Joel Dodge
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2020 Democrats haven't been asked the hardest question on Medicare-for-allopinion Forget taxes. Someone needs to ask them about job losses.
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Trump 2020 is Bush-Cheney '04 on steroidsopinion 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-allopinion 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 DemocratsThe 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 unexceptionalopinion How Trump put kids into cages and shattered the country's self-image
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Paul Ryan's final surrenderopinion It's Trump's party now
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Trump's defense of white supremacists is really a defense of himselfopinion 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 gluttonopinion 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 TrumpCareopinion 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 predictableThe 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 takersopinion 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 Bidenopinion Four more years!
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What this new experiment in Chicago can teach us about combating povertyopinion 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 ObamaCareopinion It's all about protecting the rights of states
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How Hillary Clinton can be a populist without scaring off Big Businessopinion 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 themselvesopinion But it wouldn't hurt the Democrats to claim that their priorities do
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The real reason millennials should embrace ObamaCareopinion 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 mandateopinion And move beyond an outdated health-care system that relies way too heavily on employer-based insurance
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Why liberals want to fix the welfare state — and conservatives don'topinion While liberals seek to reform a decrepit employer-based system, conservatives look to preserve it
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It's not (always) the teacher's fault: What 'no excuses' reformers get wrong about educationopinion Dana Goldstein's excellent The Teacher Wars offers some useful lessons for those who want to transcend an age-old policy dispute
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Why the GOP wants to 'divide and conquer' the pooropinion The conservative approach to poverty alleviation is rooted in outdated notions of who does and doesn't deserve aid
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How an ObamaCare for higher ed could bring down the skyrocketing cost of collegeopinion Higher ed is ripe for some ObamaCare-like reforms
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Why Hillary Clinton should run for an Obama third termopinion Obama is seen as a drag on a potential Clinton ticket. But the unfinished business of the center-left is where the votes are.
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Sorry, conservatives: America is not even close to being a colorblind countryopinion 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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