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 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 to roll back creeping segregation in our schoolsopinion 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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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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The American middle class is no longer safe from poverty — and that might be a good thingopinion More Americans than ever are vulnerable to economic insecurity. The silver lining is that this means we might actually do something about it.
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Why Halbig and the conservative war on ObamaCare will failopinion Look no further than Chief Justice John Roberts for an explanation of why Halbig is legally absurd
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Why the Republican freak-out over Obama's immigration order is both dumb and inhumaneopinion Critics have labeled his impending executive action "domestic Caesarism." But the conservative backlash is out of touch with reality.
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