Month: August 2014
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New NYT: Fighting Ebola conspiracy theories
From my new Upshot column: Misinformation about politics may often seem silly — the immigration bill will give out free cars! — but the consequences of false beliefs in public health can be deadly. In the developed world, myths about the risks of vaccines have enabled the resurgence of communicable diseases like measles and pertussis.
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New NYT: Potential backlash for Obama on Ferguson
From my new Upshot column: Before Thursday, President Barack Obama had issued only a brief written statement about the events in Ferguson, Mo., a St. Louis suburb that erupted in protests after Saturday’s killing of an unarmed black youth, Michael Brown, by a police officer. But he soon came under pressure to address events there
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New NYT: Political risks for Obama on immigration
From my new Upshot column: With hopes fading of passing an immigration reform bill, President Obama is reportedly contemplating bypassing Congress and making sweeping changes to immigration policy before the midterm elections. Many analysts think the executive action under consideration and its political fallout could, as Ronald Brownstein put it in The National Journal, “define