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House Republicans Just Touched the Third Rail

Timothy Noah The New Republic
Early this morning, House Republicans, rushed to cut not quite $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next 10 years. Today, Medicaid commands not merely a significant voting bloc, but a significant Republican voting bloc.

The Radical Courage of Noor Abdalla

Aida Alami The New Yorker
How the wife of Mahmoud Khalil has navigated becoming a new mother while fighting for her husband’s freedom.

No, There Isn’t an Epidemic of Workless Medicaid Recipients

Matt Bruenig Jacobin
Trump administration officials including RFK Jr want to add work requirements to Medicaid, arguing that there is a major scourge of able-bodied recipients refusing to get jobs. Their case dramatically overstates how many people in this group are not

How NOT To Run an Antisemitism Commission

Michael Felsen Portside
Hatred of Jews because they are Jews is anathema wherever it rears its ugly head, it should be called out. But anti-Israel statements should not presumptively be equated with antisemitism, nor pro- Israeli statements imply an absence of antisemitism