
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.
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Marco Rubio's proposal to fight income inequality is pretty good — but it could be betteropinion 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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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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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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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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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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The tough politics of Medicaid for Republicansopinion As the midterms approach, GOP governors are grappling with their shortsighted rejection of one of ObamaCare's central pillars
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It takes one to tango: Why Obama's government by executive action is here to stayopinion 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 stateopinion 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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