Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

And the Trump administration is trying to block the use of scientific evidence in a way that will make things much, much worse. 3/ https://t.co/4FnG73ZwKa — PolitiTweet.org

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This may not look like a big deal, but that small uptick killed around 10,000 Americans 2/ https://t.co/MVv4PNyAEn — PolitiTweet.org

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I know everyone is focused on impeachment, and rightly so. But spare a moment for what should be a really big story: even aside from climate change, environmental quality is getting worse 1/ https://t.co/0SfGOMSKSr — PolitiTweet.org

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Yes. The facts are already damning, and Trump would be gone if we still had 2 parties that believed in the Constitution. The hearings are about making that truth clear to the public. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @larry_levitt: In the context of a national debate over drug prices, note that Medicaid gets the best prices around. https://t.co/ocH3LC… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @shefalil: Elizabeth Warren says that, without change, Americans will spend $11 trillion from their own pockets over the next decade on… — PolitiTweet.org

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So there's nothing subtle about this: Trumpian crony capitalism is going to sicken and kill thousands of Americans. 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course, these industries are also big campaign contributors — with the vast bulk of the money going to Republicans 4/ https://t.co/0HPH99eEcc https://t.co/MpnaiNGkIk — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a very big, very bad deal. This study by Nodhaus et al — which only considered the health costs of air pollution — found that in a number of industries these costs are a large fraction of the industry's value added, and sometimes exceeds it 3/ https://t.co/m05CcbGvOR https://t.co/4adfSlg64V — PolitiTweet.org

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Yet the Trump administration is basically looking for a way to block regulations that protect us from pollution that kills people, by requiring disclosure of individual medical records 2/ https://t.co/4FnG73ZwKa — PolitiTweet.org

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We often say that climate change is a very hard issue to address because it's long-term, global and relatively invisible. However, health damage from air pollution doesn't have these issues: it's quick, local and measurable 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emorwee: The EPA's new science policy means the agency will no longer be able to create public health regulations based on the scientif… — PolitiTweet.org

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Why Dems don't need a tycoon on a white horse — or in a black limo https://t.co/zo8QvFhQ9U — PolitiTweet.org

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Just back from the Irish economics/comedy festival Kilkenomics. Yes, one session took place in a cathedral, although not actually like this https://t.co/O0R8f6XPCk — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: .@PaulKrugman responded to comments on his latest column, "Centrists, Progressives and Europhobia." Read his exchanges with… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: Sometimes it feels as if centrists are Rip Van Winkles who were last awake in the 1990s, @PaulKrugman writes https://t.co/0… — PolitiTweet.org

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You can disagree with her values, but not her competence — and in person she's impressive as hell 2/ https://t.co/5RRDxlC7yD — PolitiTweet.org

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If you think Nancy Pelosi, of all people, is dumb, well someone is dumb, but not who you think 1/ https://t.co/3VtkUiKrQw — PolitiTweet.org

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And/or massively abusing the power of office is perfectly OK. In other words, no reason to believe that most Rs are really troubled by revelations about Trump's actions. Dems are the enemy, and rule of law is just something they pretend to care about 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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There's a lot of evidence from state-level races that the modern GOP just doesn't consider it legitimate for Dems to hold power, no matter what. By this standard, doing whatever it takes to keep Ds out, even if it involves colluding with foreign powers 2/ https://t.co/feGgzsrA8a — PolitiTweet.org

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Seeing a lot of pieces about why GOP politicians are standing behind Trump even though they know he grotesquely abused power and betrayed US interests. Usually framed in terms of primary challenges, etc. But is this overthinking? 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And everyone will get a pony — PolitiTweet.org

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The bottom line here: the numbers do add up, given the assumptions — and the assumptions are disputable, but not crazy. Important to realize that this hasn't been true of any GOP plan for decades (cough Ryan cough) https://t.co/puroXab8GL — PolitiTweet.org

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Paul Waldman and I are thinking along similar lines https://t.co/FqhlmoA4Lo — PolitiTweet.org

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From the annals of "nobody could have predicted" https://t.co/vUELHcbKdk — PolitiTweet.org

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I mean, you have to take a number and wait for a few minutes. But that happens in the private sector too. In fact, I only wish my interactions with, say, Verizon were as benign and wasted as little time as my DMV experiences 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Lately I've been getting some comments using the old line that if progressives get their way, everything will be like dealing with the DMV. So am I the only person who has mainly had fairly positive experiences at the DMV? 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

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France is no utopia. But the idea that it's some kind of hellhole is weirdly out of touch with reality. On the Rawls test — which society would you choose if you didn't know who you'd be — France surely beats America 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And thanks in part to universal health care, when it comes to life expectancy there's no comparison. (I liked the theory that it was all about red wine, but apparently researchers don't believe that anymore) 4/ https://t.co/saaCRdKIm1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Meanwhile, income growth for the bottom half of the population has been better there than here 3/ https://t.co/5CFHdEp6ik — PolitiTweet.org