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Not So Fast on Ukraine

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
Trump’s pitiful pivot to Putin has awakened two sleeping giants—Republican opposition and European unity.

Trump Sends Conflicting Medicaid Cut Messages

Ben Leonard, Adam Cancryn and Robert King Politico
Republicans are getting worried about how much they’ll have to cut from the popular health safety-net program, and whether the president will protect them from political blowback.

labor

The California Job-Killer That Wasn’t

Rogé Karma The Atlantic
The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?

Some Guardrails Hold

Robert Kuttner The American Prospect
More Trump screwball nominations are going down, and he belatedly agrees to let the FBI vet nominees—meaning that still more will fall.

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Man Overboard

Rebecca Onion Slate
"Josh Hawley’s long-threatened tome about American masculinity is here," writes this reviewer. "Savor it with me."
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