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The Fed kept interest rates steady. Here's my Fedsplainer from last month, explaining what that means (and why it matters if the Fed's independence is threatened): newrepublic.com/article/194385…

having a pope who attended Villanova indicates that we will have the first pope to fill out a March Madness bracket

Recent conversations on conservative support for baby bonuses and other early childhood economic supports have focused on what such policies would mean for falling birthrates. But would they mean for poor families? newrepublic.com/article/195031…

House Republicans are pressing forward with a plan to cut billions of dollars from a critical nutrition program by forcing states to shoulder more of the cost, threatening benefits for roughly 42 million low-income Americans in red and blue states alike. newrepublic.com/article/195323…

🎙️ @grace_segers, Haley Byrd Wilt, and I are back with a @hothtakes episode about #Andor season 2. It may surprise you to learn that we disagreed about a lot of things! hothtakes.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/hot…

I am once again asking you to read an article I wrote about the filibuster newrepublic.com/article/195647…

In March, the Trump administration said it would scale back enforcement of the FACE Act, which prohibits obstruction and property damage of abortion clinics. Abortion providers now worry about an increased threat environment, and emboldened protesters. newrepublic.com/article/195810…

Grant freezes and program cuts at USDA, as well as efforts to slash food stamps, could leave community providers in rural America floundering. newrepublic.com/article/195925…

Progressives are wringing their hands over the shift that took young men voters to the right. But some worry about focusing more on the symptom than the cause. newrepublic.com/article/196183…

It's not only that Trump pardoned Jan. 6 rioters for hundreds of assaults, he also ordered the Justice Department to drop about 300 pending felony cases for assaulting or interfering with police and to stop investigations to charge about 60 more. web.archive.org/web/2025010822…

I talked to Grace Segers The New Republic about the case for ranked-choice voting and the case against NYC's batshit version where the primary and general election have very different rules and any attempt to explain things ends up as a Charlie Chart. newrepublic.com/article/196732…

Four years after electing Eric Adams, the city’s mayoral primaries on Tuesday will provide another chance for voters to use a still-novel system for choosing a nominee. newrepublic.com/article/196732…

The U.S. social safety net was constructed around ideas of "deservingness." For single moms, that often meant additional hoops to jump through. Analysis on how poor single moms rely on benefits programs, & what the reconciliation bill would mean for them: newrepublic.com/article/197027…

ICYMI: I wrote about how the modern social safety net has been crafted around ideas of "deservingness," and how that has affected low-income single moms in the past—as well as how poor single moms today could be impacted by cuts to benefits. newrepublic.com/article/197027…

Regardless of how lawmakers react, experts say the president’s actions were unlawful. newrepublic.com/article/197304…