Joel Dodge
The Week
New York, United States
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2020 Democrats haven't been asked the hardest question on Medicare-for-all
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Trump 2020 is Bush-Cheney '04 on steroids
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GE: The lessons of a corporate giant's decline
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Easy investing on the fly
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Can the US Provide a Public Option for Prescription Drugs?
Patient advocates and health-care experts say the government can get into the generic pharmaceuticals business—and it wouldn’t even require a new law. → Read More
Brett Kavanaugh, Social Security privatizer – Joel Dodge –
Much of the debate over Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court has understandably focused on the threat he poses to health care and reproductive rights. But there’s another element… → Read More
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat one of Congress' most powerful Democrats
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Paul Ryan's final surrender
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Trump's defense of white supremacists is really a defense of himself
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Republicans have a new welfare queen: The sick glutton
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There is no dealmaker on Earth crafty enough to save TrumpCare
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What this new experiment in Chicago can teach us about combating poverty
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The conservative case for the Supreme Court to uphold ObamaCare
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Sorry, GOP, tax cuts don't pay for themselves
But it wouldn't hurt the Democrats to claim that their priorities do → Read More
How Hillary Clinton can be a populist without scaring off Big Business
When it comes to fighting income inequality, what's good for workers is often good for corporations, too → Read More
The American middle class is no longer safe from poverty — and that might be a good thing
More Americans than ever are vulnerable to economic insecurity. The silver lining is that this means we might actually do something about it. → Read More
It's not (always) the teacher's fault: What 'no excuses' reformers get wrong about education
Dana Goldstein's excellent The Teacher Wars offers some useful lessons for those who want to transcend an age-old policy dispute → Read More
Why a hedge fund manager will tell you big government is great for capitalism
What can government do to cultivate a vibrant economy? Nothing, if you ask our political class. Ever since Bill Clinton declared that the era of big government was over, even Democrats have treated the welfare state like a drag on the free market, focusing on its social benefits rather than its economic ones. But this is a mistake, as any hedge fund manager will tell you. Government investments in… → Read More
Don't listen to Paul Ryan: The GOP is still the party of makers and takers
Ryan has disavowed his previous rhetoric. But the GOP's policy proposals haven't changed. → Read More
Why the Republican freak-out over Obama's immigration order is both dumb and inhumane
Critics have labeled his impending executive action "domestic Caesarism." But the conservative backlash is out of touch with reality. → Read More