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Steven Greenhouse today posted a handy review of Trump kleptocracy in The Guardian. It’s a lot to keep track of! I wish someone would design a user-friendly Trump Kleptocracy Tracker. Johns Hopkins’s SNF Agora Institute has an OK one, inspi...
In Defense of California Governor Gray Davis
In my latest New Republic piece, I argue that California’s top-two open primary is good-government nonpartisanship gone berserk. That it may lead this year to a general election limited to two MAGA Republican extremists—Steve Hilton, a.k.a....
Donald Trump's War on Government Excellence
Still from Sergei Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” (1925).
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Throwing Immigrants Into ICE Detention Actually Hurts Native-Born Workers Too
Labor market stimulus in McAllen, Texas, 2018. Photo courtesy of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
My latest, for the New Republic, is about a new study showing that to the extent Trump’s deportation mania affects native-born worke...
Let's Have A Met Gala For The Washington Post
Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2017, photo by Kai Pilger.
Another year, another Met Gala passes me by. In my latest New Republic piece I observe that the Met’s Costume Institute, no matter what you think of it as a charity, has bu...
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Backbencher jefe; New Republic staff writer; author, "The Great Divergence." Former Politico, Slate, Wall Street Journal, US News, Washington Monthly, etc.
Journalist and author covering war for 35 years, Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for a series on the Americans grievously wounded in war. Website: davidwood-journalist.com
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