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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn

@citizencohn.bsky.social

Senior reporter @HuffPost
Author, THE TEN YEAR WAR & SICK
Lecturer @UMichigan
Fan of Red Sox, Dolphins, Wolverines
Proud husband & dad
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Don't know if Joe Biden will step aside Don't know if Kamala Harris will become nominee But in case he does and she does, here's a look back at an episode that helped cement perceptions of her -- and why it's more complicated than commonly remembered www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala...
Let's Talk About Kamala Harris ― And This Key Moment From Her 2020 Campaignwww.huffpost.com A case study in what she screwed up, but also what she got right.
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The Project 2025 plan includes Medicaid block grants/per capita caps but they are wildly unpopular. Per KFF only 28% of U.S. adults support funding caps while 71% want Medicaid financing to remain as-is. 86% of beneficiaries support funding remaining as-is. #healthpolicy www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...
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Biden stepping aside? High risk Biden staying on the ticket? High risk My newsletter thoughts on the alternatives (esp. Harris and Whitmer) and how to weigh them open.substack.com/pub/citizenc...
About That Debate, And About Joe Bidenopen.substack.com Thoughts on the stakes, what happened Thursday night and where Democrats might go from here
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nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...
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Today at @HuffPost I tell the story of an actor, his family and their tragic encounter with America’s mental health care system The article has been in the works for more than a year Its roots lie in professional & personal experiences that go back decades www.huffpost.com/entry/mental... (1)
He Went To An Emergency Room For Help. Then He Vanished.www.huffpost.com An overwhelmed, underfunded system is jamming ERs with patients in psychiatric distress. And sometimes the consequences are deadly.
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So all those polls showing soft Biden support among Black voters, especially younger Black men How serious a problem? What's behind the sentiments? To find out, I sat down with a group in Detroit -- then talked to some organizers as well Here's what I heard www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...
Should Joe Biden Really Be Worried About Black Voters?www.huffpost.com A dispatch from a key battleground state.
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Here @polgreen.bsky.social did the most unusual thing -- went to Columbia, actually spent the time to see/understand what was going on, then wrote about it all without trying to hide/run away from complexities and contradictions Sure could use more of this www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/o...
Opinion | The Student-Led Protests Aren’t Perfect. That Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Right.www.nytimes.com There might be problems in the student protest movement for Gaza, but they are not misguided in their goals.
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This is maddening: New polling conducted by Dems finds that an alarmingly small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump's most blatant authoritarian threats, such as his "dictator" quote. This is bad. But it's also an opportunity. 1/ Link: newrepublic.com/article/1795...
Maddening New Poll: Voters Are Unaware of Trump “Dictator” Threatsnewrepublic.com A small percentage of voters surveyed are familiar with Trump’s most overt authoritarian outbursts. That’s frightening. But it’s also an opportunity.
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Trump was in Michigan last week, blasting Biden for his support of electric vehicles Not the first time and not the last, I’m sure I wrote about the case Biden can make/is making — and why the issue could loom large in November www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...
Don't Forget About This Issue — It Could Make Or Break Michigan For Bidenwww.huffpost.com There's a reason Trump makes such a big deal about electric vehicles every time he comes here.
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“The effect would be to create a second Trump administration that would attack abortion rights and abortion access from a variety of angles & could be stopped only by courts that the first Trump administration had already stacked with conservative judges.” www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...
Trump Allies Plan New Sweeping Abortion Restrictionswww.nytimes.com His supporters are seeking to attack abortion rights and abortion access from a variety of angles should he regain the White House, including using a long-dormant law from 1873.
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Been thinking a lot about Harry Truman’s 1948 campaign against the Do-Nothing Congress — and whether Biden has a similar opportunity Here’s Nate Cohn in the Times making that very argument www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/u...
Biden Has Openings for a Comeback on Two Weak Pointswww.nytimes.com He now has a clear line of defense on the border issue and a strong argument about the economy.