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The last model update is here.
As Election Day approaches, Republicans are beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately for them, that light increasingly resembles an oncoming train.
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The Argument is a magazine making the combative, evidence-based case for liberalism. Founded by Jerusalem Demsas. Join us, we're libbing out.
I am the Senior Editor at The Argument.
Fellow at The Argument, Tech & Society
Editor-in-Chief of The Argument | [email protected]
We're not doomed. We just have a very long to-do list. @The Argument.
running the political data and polls @TheArgument. founder of Split Ticket, also an ML engineer in the SF bay area :) cal alum and chelsea fan, so I love watching my sports teams lose.
Blogger, journalist, podcaster, trying to get back to my roots.
Professor at Yale Law School: economic and tax policy, infrastructure costs. Formerly OMB Chief Economist. law.yale.edu/zachary-liscow
Fellow @ The Argument arguing about economics (mostly housing) online
(my Brit) fellow at The Argument covering gender etc.
Noah Kaufman is a a Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy. He was a Senior Economist focused on climate policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Jeremiah Johnson is a cofounder of the Center for New Liberalism and staff writer at The Argument. Twitter: @JeremiahDJohns.
University of Michigan Law Professor, former Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Whitmer
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