Evening Roundup, May 13
Featuring Neera Tanden & Jen Rubin in conversation, Hannah Katch & Jared Bernstein, Shalise Manza Young, Eliza Orlins, Josh Levs, Brian O'Neill, Meredith Blake, and Nick Anderson
Republicans want to gut healthcare: Neera Tanden on cuts to Medicaid and more
Jen is joined by Neera Tanden, the President for the Center for American Progress, to discuss the massive recommended cuts to healthcare and Medicaid released last Sunday by House Republicans.
Medicaid works, as do most of the adults it covers
By Hannah Katch and Jared Bernstein
Work requirements are nothing more than a backdoor way to way to take health care coverage from millions of people.
When Philadelphia bombed its own residents
Forty years ago today, eleven people died in the alarmingly little-known attack on the communal group MOVE
By Shalise Manza Young
The Diddy Trial Has Begun: Here’s What to Know
New York City public defender Eliza Orlins discusses the trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs taking place in Federal District Court in Lower Manhattan. Stay tuned to hear more details in the coming weeks ahead.
We can demand better from the media
If the responses to my pieces here on The Contrarian and on They Stand Corrected (my podcast and newsletter) are any gauge, Americans’ frustration with the media seems to be bigger than ever. If you’re exasperated with endless failures from major news agencies, I don’t blame you. Big legacy outlets allow people to lie with impunity.
How reality TV perpetuates the myth of the American dream
Eunji Kim is the first to admit that her scholarly interest in popular culture—especially reality TV—makes her a bit of an oddball in her circle of social scientists.
Security threat
Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist whose cartoons have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post and elsewhere. Find him on Substack at nickanderson.substack.com.
Are there any words left ?
can we say "trojan horse?"