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American Jobs Plan (2021)

Do GOP lawmakers REALLY want to vote against Biden’s infrastructure plan?

John Fea   |  April 10, 2021

Ron Brownstein thinks it is a bad political move: With their opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan, Republicans are doubling down on a core bet they’ve made for his presidency: that the GOP can maintain support among its key...

Why is “President Biden making such a sharp break with Joe Biden?”

John Fea   |  April 8, 2021

Here is Ezra Klein at The New York Times: Joe Biden didn’t wake up one day and realize he’d been wrong for 30 years. I covered him in the Senate, in the Obama White House, in the Democratic Party’s post-Trump...

Amtrak will expand routes if Biden’s American Jobs Plan passes

John Fea   |  April 8, 2021

Joe Biden spent most of his senate career commuting to Wilmington, Delaware to Washington D.C. via Amtrak. His new infrastructure plan will give $80 billion to the rail line. Here is Joseph Spector and Joey Garrison at USA Today: How...

Racism and interstate highways

John Fea   |  April 7, 2021

Joe Biden’s new infrastructure plan singled out the Claiborne Expressway in New Orleans as a “racist highway. The plan sets aside $20 billion to “reconnect” neighborhoods that were racially divided by highway construction. Over at NPR, Noel King interviews New...

The American Jobs Plan is here

John Fea   |  March 31, 2021

Biden’s jobs and infrastructure plan is up at the White House website. The framing: While the American Rescue Plan is changing the course of the pandemic and delivering relief for working families, this is no time to build back to...

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Tom Nichols: “The United States now faces a different kind of violence, from people who believe in nothing…”

August 17, 2022 By John Fea

National Endowment for the Humanities funds 226 projects

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“Capture the schools”

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In sixty years American society has moved from “we shall overcome” to “you will not replace us”

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The “civic grit” of Liz Cheney

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