Peter Baker

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

An inflation rate of 8.5%, the highest in more than four decades, poses a huge economic and political challenge for Biden and Democrats heading into the midterms. @jeannasmialek https://t.co/DnQpnbNvLt — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The hidden crisis: The share of US high school students who say they feel “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26% in 2009 to 44% in 2021, the highest level of teenage sadness ever recorded. And it’s not just the pandemic. @DKThomp https://t.co/zTro3WdwkP — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The screening panel deemed new Kushner firm's operations "unsatisfactory in all aspects” with a fee that “seems excessive" and a political profile that entailed “public relations risks." MBS gave him $2 billion anyway. ⁦@ddknyt⁩ ⁦@katekelly⁩ https://t.co/PmDmdBYOTh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"Who do I need to fire?" Inside the fractious Biden White House debate about how to tackle the border crisis. ⁦@KannoYoungs⁩ ⁦@shearm⁩ ⁦@esullivannyt⁩ https://t.co/s8cfTtzQpf — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

As a Russian anthropologist told her, "We were trying to make some cosmetic changes to our faces, when the cancer was growing and growing in our stomachs." — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

The amazing ⁦@stavernise⁩ recalls asking the questions that haunted us when ⁦@sbg1⁩ and I lived in Moscow too: What if a place was unfree but also happy? How long could it stay that way? Now we know. https://t.co/n5m3hMnqAa — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Superspreader: At least 67 people who attended DC's Gridiron Dinner have now tested positive for covid, including three cabinet secretaries. ⁦@AnnieLinskey⁩ https://t.co/8dwBypCARc — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Life expectancy in the US amid the pandemic declined more in 2020 than in any of 19 peer countries and then declined again in 2021 while it improved in most peer countries. ⁦@JoelAchenbach⁩ ⁦@dtkeating⁩ https://t.co/6rBlLFsGFh — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Jobless claims essentially reach the lowest level in 54 years as the labor market continues its strong comeback from the pandemic. Unemployment is at 3.6%, nearly the lowest rate in a half century. ⁦@Neil_Irwin⁩ https://t.co/ewv7wzy4ae — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maggieNYT: Just remarkable bravery — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Because Breyer does not actually step down until the term ends and the court will then not resume until October, Jackson will not actually take the bench for six months, evidently the longest a newly confirmed justice has waited. @adamliptak https://t.co/ZFC3MwgB6B — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @KevinRothrock: Aboard a train to Samara, somebody attacked Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @nytimes: Breaking News: Speaker Nancy Pelosi tested positive for the coronavirus, the latest high-profile official to contract it amid… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @sbg1: 58 abstentions and 24 against — a reminder that what is often reported as ‘unity’ against Russia’s war is not exactly a global re… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @kyledcheney: Left: Meadows said in his book that Trump never intended to walk to the Capitol, was speaking “metaphorically.” Right: Tr… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

--the need to project strength while also being subtle, the vast gulf of misunderstanding between two sides, the consequences of unscripted off-the-cuff remarks, the challenge in figuring out when to escalate and when to de-escalate, the existential dangers of miscalculation. (2) — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Fascinating time to read or reread "The Crisis Years," the classic account of Kennedy vs Khrushchev at perhaps the most volatile moments of the Cold War, by the one and only ⁦@BeschlossDC⁩. It feels remarkably resonant today -- (1) https://t.co/EN5EpitywY — PolitiTweet.org

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Congrats to @jonathanvswan @ZekeJMiller @MikeBalsamo1 @jonkarl and @b_smialowski on winning this year's @whca journalism awards! What a terrific group of journalists and colleagues. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @katierogers: She was at the White House the day before, too, distributing hugs and at one point kissing former President Obama's hand h… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Forced to shut down in Russia, Novaya Gazeta journalists launch a new, Europe-based media outlet in a bid to avoid an ongoing media clampdown amid their country’s war in Ukraine. https://t.co/8bD8R3l4G5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Bill Clinton defends NATO expansion: "Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, far from casting the wisdom of NATO expansion into doubt, proves that this policy was necessary.” https://t.co/LKGtbaw6cB — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

"Sotomayor ... has a new hobby: poker. She said she has read books and watched the World Series of Poker. She invites friends over for dinner and all the liquor they want, she said, before fleecing them." ⁦@scotusreporter⁩ ⁦ https://t.co/AgnRShMkKG — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

@rachaelmbade @karoun @WmMorrowBooks Who knew impeachment books would become required reading for each generation? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

@karoun Your task was literally twice as hard! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

@karoun @rachaelmbade @WmMorrowBooks Looking forward to this — two great reporters produce a book that will surely be an important record for history. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @sbg1: Sadly, tragically, the atrocities in Bucha will not end up as an outlier but as a harbinger https://t.co/Ik902GogQU — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

RT @mkraju: 63 Rs voted NO on a non-binding resolution reaffirming “unequivocal support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as an al… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

A dispute over allowing patients to bring leavened bread into hospitals during Passover has precipitated a political crisis that threatens to collapse Bennett’s fragile governing coalition in Israel. @PatrickKingsley @IKershner https://t.co/VQ1PNwmc6U — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the fiery ultranationalist Russian party leader whose success in Moscow foreshadowed the rise of far-right populist forces across Europe, dies two months after being hospitalized with covid. @antontroian @INechepurenko https://t.co/htbYRfkrP5 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt

With the rise of a new contagious covid variant, ⁦@DLeonhardt⁩ explores why cases in the US haven't been increasing, at least not yet. https://t.co/hHwTHnGsoR — PolitiTweet.org