Maggie Astor: Are there topics you'd like me to add? Let me know. (Current to-do list, in alphabetical order, not order of priority: China, climate, crime, education, guns, health care, labor, public health, technology, trans rights, Ukraine.)

Excited to introduce a project I've been working on for a long time: a thorough comparison of Biden and Trump on the issues. "The stakes, not the odds," to borrow from Jay Rosen. The initial version has 6 topics, but I'll be adding more, as well as updating with new statements/policies. Gift link:

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

Each topic starts with a brief comparison, and then you can delve deeper. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Click on one of the sub-topics — say, "transfer of power" from the screenshot above — and there's much more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are there topics you'd like me to add? Let me know. (Current to-do list, in alphabetical order, not order of priority: China, climate, crime, education, guns, health care, labor, public health, technology, trans rights, Ukraine.)

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

I'd be remiss if I didn't add that, while my byline is on this project, it was a huge group effort — especially by my colleagues Nico Chilla and Rebecca Lieberman, who are responsible for the design.

Where Joe Biden and Donald Trump Stand on the Issueswww.nytimes.com Here’s what President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

And more than a dozen colleagues with subject-matter expertise in various areas reviewed a section or a paragraph or even just a sentence. For example, I am not an expert on Federal Reserve policy, but my colleague Jeanna Smialek is, so she reviewed what I wrote about interest rates.

Thank you for writing this. I'd definitely like to see a climate section in there. I'd also like to see more emphasis on actions taken than statements made, but overall great work.

Within education, a few suggestions: -College loan repayment plans (e.g., SAVE for Biden, I have no idea for Trump) -Interpretation of Title IX (including and beyond trans rights) -Staffing of Office of Civil Rights (they do the bulk of investigations re Title IX, ADA, IDEA, CRA, etc.)

Thank you!

beyond climate-specific emissions and energy, it'd be good to include a general "environment" section that covers air and water pollution, endangered species and habitat protection, mining/extraction, and public lands conservation

You have given readers a lot of accurate information! Could an editor possibly add, on the main web front page (or app front) a tiny bit more detail to include “Trump’s 3 justices nullified the federal right to abortion” or some such? It’s a glaring omission to me as is

Iran

Good list of topics! Bookmarked

Thank you! I'd request: immigration policy. So charged & so oft-misrepresented. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick at American Immigration Council is a thoughtful & tireless source. (Dara Lind is at AIC too.) Adam Isacson at WOLA also does a lot of on-the-ground plus data. Thanks for this series!

Yup, that's one of the initial six topics that published today (abortion, democracy, economy, immigration, Israel/Gaza, Social Security/Medicare). The list in the post you replied to is the additional topics that are still to come.

Apologies! Had it queued up to read but hadn’t read yet!🫣 Sorry to make you tap the sign🙃

No worries!

Repro rights??

That's the first topic in the piece!

Where are LGBTQ rights?

Very important and on my list to add. I wrote "trans rights" in my what's-coming post because that's been the most prominent topic under the umbrella lately, but that section will cover LGBTQ rights more broadly as well.

Hey Maggie- read this. I agree with him on this. twitter.com/MarkJacob16/...

Please fix this because Mark is correct here. This gives Donald a pass on his horrible record and downplays Biden's achievements.

Thank you.

This is an awesome piece, thank you!! Are you able to broaden past just abortion rights? The MAGA crowd is very serious about returning women to confederacy/slave status, the attacks on “DEI” and women in power are just beginning. You might want to do “porn” too since *everything* is porn to them.

Ah, misread your ‘to do’ as the list of topics, next time I’ll click through first! Also, I live near your dad in Montclair!

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