Yoni Appelbaum
@YAppelbaum
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Deputy Executive Editor @TheAtlantic. Author of "Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity."
Washington, DC
Joined March 2011
1. I’ve spent the past several years trying to solve a riddle: Why has America ceased to be a land of opportunity for so many of its people? The answer, I’ve come to believe, is that we’re STUCK:
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RT @TheAtlantic: Dan “Razin” Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, doesn’t want the spotlight—but with this White House, there’s no avoiding….
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RT @vmsalama: How Much Worse Is This Going to Get? @AdrienneLaF writes that political violence poses an existential threat to our nation an….
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RT @jaynordlinger: By @Peter_Wehner, an important article. I like to think that, if Americans knew about PEPFAR, they would support it, and….
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Sitting in the morning at the diner on the corner, waiting for the man to pour the coffee?
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RT @TheAtlantic: "China isn’t ready to be the world’s next superpower: That’s one thing the exchange of fire between Israel and Iran in Jun….
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RT @TheAtlantic: Evangelicals in America "have mostly turned their eyes away from what is happening on the African continent" since Trump s….
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There is nothing more DC than Intern Day featuring networking opportunities
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RT @DavidAvromBell: “There are no MAGA intellectuals, just Trump and opportunistic ideologues attempting to hitch their pet projects to his….
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RT @TheAtlantic: The Fourth of July was once a raucous, avowedly partisan, boozy occasion—so how did it become a celebratory civic gatherin….
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RT @Jenna_DC: NEW: Google might be the next company to settle with President Trump, @michaelscherer reports. Lawyers have begun “productive….
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RT @Jenna_DC: President Trump wanted to sign his “big, beautiful bill” with a celebratory flourish on America’s birthday. And so nearly all….
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RT @TheAtlantic: "Of all the elements of the One Big Beautiful Bill, perhaps none is as obviously self-defeating as getting rid of tax cred….
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A Magic Minute turns out to contain 31,440 seconds. (A New York Minute contains only one.).
HAKEEM JEFFRIES spoke from 4:53 a.m. to 1:37 p.m. 8 hours and 44 minutes. He just wrapped.
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2. The big thing this points to is that while the rules matter, the culture may matter more. So long as opposing housing seems politically virtuous, it will be hard to push through. But if we're seeing *creating* housing becoming seen as virtuous, then the changes will snowball.
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1. A very useful thread from the smartest analyst of the legal complexities of California's housing crisis, pointing to why the CEQA reform is a big deal—and to its potential limits as an actual driver of change.
"Can you put a rough number on how much California's CEQA reforms will increase housing production?". I've gotten this Q from lots of journalists over the last 48 hours (who sound frustrated w/ my answer), so here's a 🧵 laying out my thinking about it. 1/25.
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“The White House website looks like a Chinese government site now,” the newly tenured professor said.
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RT @valerificent: Amazing sentences in this essay by @Tyler_A_Harper, including "I was nearly seduced by a Komodo-dragon-themed fountain, b….
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