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Wednesday
August 4, 2021
This Is How Infrastructure Week Might
Finally
End (in the Senate, at Least)
The incredibly true story of how a BIF could become a BIB—which would be a BFD, indeed.
by Grace Segers
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No, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Your Vaccination Status Is Not Protected by HIPAA
How Covid vaccine skeptics came to embrace an apocryphal reading of a 1996 law.
by Matt Ford
The Movements for Eviction Relief and Voting Rights Converge on the Capitol Grounds
Activists and lawmakers rally against congressional inertia.
by Grace Segers
The New Economics Is Here
Legislative compromise is always disappointing, but we’re really moving toward an economy that’s more caring, more green, and more equal.
by Mike Konczal, Steph Sterling and Felicia Wong
Why Mainstream Media Struggles to Explain the Infrastructure Plan’s Climate Spending
The bill spends a historic amount on climate—and it’s still a travesty.
by Kate Aronoff
You Should Not Run Your Family Like a Business
The economist Emily Oster’s “Expecting Better” made parenting less daunting. Her new book, “The Family Firm,” does the opposite.
by Janet Manley
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