A DACA ransom note from the White House prompts Matt, Dara and Jane Coaston to muse on whose nation this is, anyway.
Refenced Works
The American Conservative piece Jane referenced: Of Sh*tholes And Second Thoughts
Elizabeth Bruenig's op ed for The Washington Post: The antisocial politics of Trump
The Passing of a Great Race
Nations and Nationalism
Imagined Communities
Profile of Stephen Miller in high school: How a liberal Santa Monica high school produced a top Trump advisor and speechwriter
Further Reading
Explainer on the White House immigration framework: The immigration deal Trump’s White House is floating, explained
Dara on framework pitting current immigrants against future immigrants: The White House is trying to force Democrats to choose between current immigrants and future ones
Jane’s piece on white genocide: The scary ideology behind Trump’s immigration instincts
Economic consensus on immigration: There's no evidence that immigrants hurt any American workers
Are corporations winning at inflation?
What BBB means for climate policy
How the 1918 flu pandemic ended
The case for more babies
The building blocks of radicalization
Why hasn’t student debt been canceled?
Best Of: The coming climate exodus
America’s Public Health Experiment: Federal failures
America's Public Health Experiment: More checks, less politics
Can school be normal again?
America’s Public Health Experiment: The agencies Covid broke
Learning to love rent control
America’s Public Health Experiment: The testing failure
Defund the police?
Biden’s $3.40 a gallon problem
Taxing Back Better
How does the pandemic end?
Reshaping America’s cities
Pass the SALT?
The Most Dangerous Branch: Covid-19 v. The Constitution
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