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Virus Did Not Bring Financial Rout That Many States Feared

Windfalls for Some States In his survey, Peter DeGroot, head of municipal research and strategy at J.P. Morgan, found a handful of states, including Idaho, South Dakota and New Mexico, that managed to take in even more money last year than in 2019. The survey also identified several states where tax revenues have not yet […] More

by Tonya Frazier March 1, 2021, 12:20 pm
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A Supreme Court Test for What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act

But Paul M. Smith, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, which submitted a brief supporting the challengers, said lower courts had worked out a sensible framework to identify restrictions that violate Section 2. “It is not enough that a rule has a racially disparate impact,” he said. “That disparity must be related to, and […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 28, 2021, 12:24 pm
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The Coronavirus Is Plotting a Comeback. Here’s Our Chance to Stop It for Good.

Across the United States, and the world, the coronavirus seems to be loosening its stranglehold. The deadly curve of cases, hospitalizations and deaths has yo-yoed before, but never has it plunged so steeply and so fast. Is this it, then? Is this the beginning of the end? After a year of being pummeled by grim […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 25, 2021, 6:30 pm
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Is Not Finished With Elections

Justice Barrett was also silent. During her confirmation hearing, Senate Democrats had pressed her to promise recusal from any election cases, given that President Donald Trump had said he needed a prompt replacement for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so that he would have a majority of justices voting his way in any election disputes. Justice […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 25, 2021, 12:08 pm
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Opinion | Criminal Justice Is a State Issue

As a 2020 report by the Death Penalty Information Center (D.P.I.C.) pointed out: “In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Tennessee between 1945 and 1965, 823 African-American men were convicted of rape, and 13 percent were sentenced to death. During the same time period, 442 white men were convicted of rape, and only […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 24, 2021, 8:02 pm
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Coronavirus Vaccines Are Reaching American Arms

President Biden is pressing for speedier inoculations as well — a case he is expected to make on Friday, when he travels to Kalamazoo, Mich., to visit the manufacturing plant of Pfizer, one of the two manufacturers of federally authorized vaccine. Federal officials estimate that as many as six million vaccine doses are still being […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 19, 2021, 8:43 am
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Biden Administration Moves to End Work Requirements in Medicaid

The Biden administration is beginning to roll back a signature Trump administration health policy goal of requiring people to work to receive Medicaid coverage. In separate actions Friday, officials notified states with approved work requirements that the administration planned to withdraw the approvals, and it rescinded a Trump-era online guidance document inviting states to pursue […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 12, 2021, 6:18 pm
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Opinion | Governors Are Easing Restrictions at Exactly the Wrong Time

When reports emerged that a new, potentially more contagious version of the coronavirus was circulating in Britain, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York implored major airlines to require anyone entering the state from another country to first submit a negative coronavirus test. Scientists still had much to learn about the variant, but Mr. Cuomo was […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 10, 2021, 3:45 pm
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Crossing State Lines for a Covid Vaccine

When Chanel Maronge saw on Facebook that she was eligible to get a Covid-19 vaccine, she seized the opportunity. The only catch? She had to cross the state line to Mississippi last week, driving an hour and a half from her home in Baton Rouge, La., to get her first shot. “The idea of having […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 4, 2021, 7:12 pm
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New Democratic Ad Campaign Ties G.O.P. to QAnon

As Republicans splinter over how to deal with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon devotee from Georgia who peddles an array of false conspiracy theories, Democrats are seizing on the infighting to make her the avatar for an array of G.O.P. lawmakers. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Tuesday began a $500,000 advertising campaign on […] More

by Tonya Frazier February 2, 2021, 7:59 am
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The Gerrymander Battles Loom, as G.O.P. Looks to Press Its Advantage

WASHINGTON — With the election over and Democrats in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, officials in both parties are bracing for a bruising new battle with a different balance of power: the redrawing of congressional maps, where Republicans hold the advantage in many state legislatures across the country, including in […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 31, 2021, 6:03 pm
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Why Pennsylvania Republican Leaders Are All-In for Trump More Than Ever

As a second impeachment trial for Donald J. Trump approaches next month, Republicans in states across the country are lining up behind the former president with unwavering support. Perhaps no state has demonstrated its fealty as tenaciously as Pennsylvania, where Republican officials have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep Trumpism at the center of their […] More

by Tonya Frazier January 28, 2021, 10:00 am

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