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On #WITHpod, I said that giving parents cash rather than subsidized child care would help men be stay-at-home dads. @chrislhayes described this as "basically a conservative position," noting Mike Lee's proposal for an expanded child tax credit. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad…
I don't think he's wrong that this is how the politics have worked out, but I think it's unfortunate because a giving parents cash when their kids are very small seems like the better policy on the merits. fullstackeconomics.com/p/giving-paren…
Something that I think is underplayed in progressive discussions of child care subsidies is that it's going to really expensive on a per-child basis, especially if you want to push up the wages of child care workers at the same time.
My own view on student debt is that
1) the college funding system is monstrouly perverse and needs to be changed fundamentally
2) the byproduct of that is a lot of very very bad and predatory debt that's having terrible human and economic costs that should be cancelled
1) the college funding system is monstrouly perverse and needs to be changed fundamentally
2) the byproduct of that is a lot of very very bad and predatory debt that's having terrible human and economic costs that should be cancelled
3) there *will* be political backlash, of course.
4) total debt cancellation would produce some very weird and bad distributional outcomes that while relatively small would be genuinely politically toxic and substantively indefensible.
4) total debt cancellation would produce some very weird and bad distributional outcomes that while relatively small would be genuinely politically toxic and substantively indefensible.
5) it's easy to avoid that pitfall but just capping the total amount per lender forgiven.
@swish41 Just an incredibly kind, gracious dude.
At the end of our convo he was like, "Man, you're a basketball *fanatic*." And I was like: guilty as charged!
Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 is out, and some of the authors featured on #WITHPod made the list!
Check out this thread to listen to their conversations with @chrislhayes:
Check out this thread to listen to their conversations with @chrislhayes:
I spend more time listening to podcasts than experiencing any other medium. Here’s what I’ve been listening to this year, in no particular order.
@thelapod is a witty, astute weekly discussion of LA politics. It’s engaged with the city’s transformational social movements as well as with our elected officials’ approaches to transit, homelessness, and police brutality—and their bribery scandals.
This year, the hosts have started two more shows: Thirty Mile Zone revisits movies set in LA with particular attention to their geography and how they represent specific places. The Ten interviews local figures about their experiences of the city in ten questions.
As I discussed w @BenjySarlin tonight, we could pay to keep every bar in America closed for a year for something like $25 bn and save every business and everyone’s jobs and not have Covid hotspots.
Would probably save money!
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Would probably save money!
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Good piece from @JHWeissmann on this slate.com/news-and-polit…
For $120 bn, we could save every independent restaurant and bar.
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.@stuartpstevens, author of "It Was All a Lie" about the #Republican party: #NikkiHaley "epitomizes someone who has a great future behind her.... It's the history of Mephistopheles, right? Not only does he take your soul, but he doesn't deliver." #WITHpod
.@stuartpstevens, longtime #Republican consultant: "I don't think we've had a moral collapse of a party in certainly modern American political history like the Republican party has." 2/1
"The closest thing I can come to it is the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, which the dissonance bwn what it said it believed & what it was in experience was so great it collapsed & you watched Chernobyl. That's basically the #Republican party." --Fmr GOP strategist S Stevens
There's a moment in this #WITHPod convo with @DanaGoldstein that I keep coming back to. Towards the end of the conversation she talks about her own experience getting Covid-19. She was among the first pregnant women in America with a positive case.
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She says that an urgent care center called her and told her she was positive and then...that was it. She and her husband were basically on their own. In other countries, she notes, the government sends medical staff to people with positive tests...
or a box with PPE and instructions about how family members can care for a sick loved one while minimizing their own risk. Here there's just...nothing. Maybe some telemedicine with your doctor. But no comprehensive, governmental response that says to each individual case:
In May 2018 on #WITHPod, Dexter Filkins and I dicussed Soleimani's role in the various intensifying proxy wars in the middle east between Iranian aligned forces and Saudi/UAE backed forces.
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In November, James Verini and I discussed his book about the Iraqi army's battle to retake Mosul from ISIS and the catastrophic effects of decades of war on Iraqis
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Both of these have some useful context, I think.
This fall I'm doing a bunch of live events I'm really excited about.
Saturday, September 28th, a live #WITHPod w/ @tedcruz (!) in Austin, TX as part of the @TexasTribune fest
Info here: ttf19.sched.com/event/UQ6E/liv…
Saturday, September 28th, a live #WITHPod w/ @tedcruz (!) in Austin, TX as part of the @TexasTribune fest
Info here: ttf19.sched.com/event/UQ6E/liv…
On Sunday, September 29th, I'll be interviewing the legendary historian Eric Foner about his new book on Reconstruction, The Second Founding.
Event is in Brooklyn at St Joseph's College.
Tickets here:
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Event is in Brooklyn at St Joseph's College.
Tickets here:
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October 21st, I'll be doing another live #WITHPod w/ @GhostPanther and @omarelakkad about art, culture and the climate crisis. Tickets aren't available yet but will be soon, and I'll post info.
I was going to pull out a few bits from this conversation w @andreapitzer about the gloabl history of concentration camps, but there's so so much I learned from it, just take the time, if you can, to listen to the whole thing
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@andreapitzer One thing I had never heard, was that in the early days of the Nazi concentration camps, years before the death camps and Final Solution, the Nazi government actually prosecuted guards for abusing and mistreating detainees. Hitler came in and pardoned them all to send a message.
@andreapitzer That stopped me cold, and has been lodged in my head since I heard it.
Just recorded a #WITHPod about China's Uighur indoctrination camps and feel shaken.
It's 1984 meets 20th century fascism meets 21st digital surveillance and it is so dark and outrageous.
So @tressiemcphd continues to check off items on MY bucket list, such as being on The Daily Show, and now appearing on #withpod with @chrislhayes. A great conversation that gets at some of the depths of #ThickTheBook here: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…
One of my favorite moments of the show was when @tressiemcphd uses "bailiwick" to describe one of her areas of focus. One of my all-time favorite words that I rarely see used. Here's hoping it makes a return.
Seriously, I recommend #withpod in general and the conversation with @tressiemcphd because the guests are smart people and @chrislhayes is also smart, but more importantly he's curious. Hearing a curious person talk to a smart person is a serious pleasure. itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thi…
We've got a #WITHPod on this topic with @WallachLori coming soon, but in the meantime. It's really crucial to distinguish the actual architecture of the current international trading regime, which is skewed and destructive in many many ways,
from the basic theoretical validity of Adam Smith's insights in Wealth of Nation's about trade, comparative advantage and the perils of mercantilism.
Nearly all of Trump's critiques of trade fall into the know-nothing, zero-sum category.
Nearly all of Trump's critiques of trade fall into the know-nothing, zero-sum category.
It is very very dumb and destructive to view the global economy like the Olympics where we're all competing for some finite number of medals and if China "loses" that's good for us because we can "win."
I'm still thinking about this conversation I had with @ZephyrTeachout about corruption, the constitution, Trump and the specific, potent poison of what we're seeing playing out more broadly in this political moment. #WITHPod
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Also, do yourself a favor and listen all the way to the end. #WITHPod
As always, we love to hear your feedback !
When I set out to do a podcast, it was exactly episodes like this one I was thinking about that made me want to do it.
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Listen to the intro for my confession about my feelings about housing policy. (How’s that for a tease!)
Here's the thing: Americans are *obsessed* with real estate and yet know *nothing* about housing policy. But it's housing policy that creates the neighborhoods we live in.
