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It’s only the beginning of America’s reckoning with Trump
By Will Marshall
Founder and President of the Progressive Policy Institute
For The Hill
Accountability — legal, moral and political — is knocking on Donald Trump’s door. Whether you call it justice or karma, a lifetime of sociopathic misconduct is finally catching up with America’s artful dodger.
Don’t be misled by the underwhelming case Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg has brought against Trump. The former president is in a world of legal hurt, and his 34-count felony indictment in New York is only the beginning of the reckoning he faces.
Bragg also has been looking into the Trump Organization’s underhanded business dealings for several years, resulting in the conviction of its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, on tax evasion charges.
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Permitting reform can cut consumer energy costs and emissions
By Paul Bledsoe, PPI's Strategic Advisor; and Elan Sykes, PPI's Energy Policy Analyst
for The Hill
America could have cleaner, cheaper energy if only we could agree to get out of our own way. The obstacle we have created is a thicket of federal and state regulations requiring energy projects to undergo lengthy, expensive, one-by-one government studies, in theory, to determine their environmental impact. But as Earth Day approaches, it’s time we align these regulations with the need to rapidly build clean energy infrastructure to both address the climate crisis and reduce consumer energy costs.
This regulatory process is termed “permitting” because of more than 60 types of federal government permits that can be required for projects, and it stems primarily from the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Initially conceived as a quick and simple examination for most routine projects, the combination of project siting, NEPA review and issuing permits has morphed into a many-years-long process rife with opportunities for narrow interests to block projects even where they demonstrably serve consumer and public interests and cut emissions. Perversely, clean energy projects, especially low-cost solar power, are most often the projects facing the longest delays.
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U.S. Black Maternal Mortality is a Human Rights Crisis
By Erin Delaney
PPI's Director of Health Care Policy
For PPI Blog
Black Maternal Health Week is a week-long initiative that raises awareness of the diminished maternal outcomes for Black women in America, who experience higher rates of pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths. Alarmingly, Black women are three to four times more likely than white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The CDC lists multiple factors that lead to increased rates of mortality for Black mothers, including implicit bias and discrimination, variation in quality of health care, and underlying health conditions. While differences in coverage and access to care certainly contribute to poorer health outcomes for Black women, they are still facing disparities in maternal and infant health regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances, including their education level or income. While Black women of any background should not be subjected to such poor maternal health outcomes, this starkly demonstrates how racism and discrimination factor into Black women’s maternal health experiences.
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RAS REPORTS:
WHAT'S NEXT: The Future is Now! ft. Dr. Constance Lindsay
PPI’s Reinventing America’s Schools (RAS) Project has a new podcast series on titled "WHAT NEXT: The Future is Now!" recorded at the SXSW Education conference in Austin, Texas. In the third episode of this five-part series, RAS co-director sits down with Dr. Constance Lindsay.
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THE NEOLIBERAL PODCAST:
Trump's Indictment - What we know and what it means
In a flash episode recorded hours after the news of Donald Trump's indictment in New York, Jeremiah walks through the essentials of what you need to know. Why is Donald Trump being indicted, and what are the potential charges he may face?
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ICYMI: Why Ukraine FightsBy Tamar Jacoby
Director of the New Ukraine Project
For The xxxxxx
One of the most popular memes circulating on Ukrainian social media in the past year used an image, first popularized on Russian social media, of a grotesque creature with the body of a fish and the snout of a pig—a shvino karas, or pig fish. “A few decades ago, almost all Ukrainian popular culture was derivative of something Russian,” online meme curator and web developer Bohdan Andrieiev, 32, explained. “Before independence and for more than a decade afterward, we had no popular culture of our own.” This has changed dramatically in recent years, culminating in a burst of new Ukrainian creativity since the Russian invasion in February 2022. Social media, meme culture, pop music, and viral jokes have emerged as powerful tools of national solidarity—the bottom-up, ironic Ukrainian equivalent of old-style totalitarian propaganda.
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Staff Spotlight: Tamar Jacoby
Tamar Jacoby
Director of the New Ukraine Project
Tamar Jacoby is currently based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She is the president of Opportunity America, a Washington-based nonprofit working to promote economic mobility, and a former journalist and author. She was a senior writer and justice editor at Newsweek and, before that, the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. She is the author of “Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration” and “Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience.” Her edited volumes include “Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American” and “This Way Up: New Thinking About Poverty and Economic Mobility.”
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