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Weekend Update, April 17
A quick jab of hot takes
Friday Thread
Should we expand the House?
A solution in search of a problem
Thursday Thread
Fix the lead pipes
Kids' brains are infrastructure
Wednesday Thread
Moderate Democrats should be popularists
The temptations of K Street are most dangerous to vulnerable members
Tuesday Thread
HR 1 is kind of half-baked
It does too little on gerrymandering and too much on other stuff
Monday Thread
More incarceration is not the answer
We need to catch serious criminals, not dole out harsher punishments
Building a better welfare state
The expanded child tax credit will be a bureaucratic mess...like most of our social safety net programs
It's time to get real about climate change and immigration in Central America
If Biden truly wants to address the root problems causing immigration, he must enact measures to fight climate change in the Northern Triangle
Friday Thread
Andrew Yang versus the unrepresentative activists
Even in an NYC primary, nobody really cares what left-wing activists think