New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage. Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...

You have to read between the lines here to imagine what President Trump is proposing. But, it sounds like it may be a plan for health accounts that could be used for insurance that doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions, which could create a death spiral in ACA plans that do.

Video of my conversation on the government shutdown with Kathy Manning, former member of Congress & Senior Fellow @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=nEIf...

Today at 5pm @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social events.brown.edu/taubman/even...

A nIce @browndailyherald.bsky.social article on a conference we held yesterday to celebrate Jim Morone's scholarship upon his retirement after a remarkable 42-year career at Brown University. @brownupolisci.bsky.social @brown.edu www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Looking forward to Monday's @taubmancenter.bsky.social Politics & Policy lunch with @rifoundation.bsky.social president & former Congressman @davidcicilline.bsky.social. @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social events.brown.edu/taubman/even...

Happy birthday @jhppl.bsky.social! 🎉Our special issue celebrating 50 years of JHPPL and the past and future of health politics and policy just dropped. Start with our opening essay w/ @oberlanderunc.bsky.social and follow along for more. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

this really gets to the issue. the government is supposed to belong to all of us and it's getting co-opted for personal and political gain at a rate impossible to fully respond to

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

A joint statement from Robert George (Princeton), Jeannie Suk Gersen (Harvard), Tom Ginsburg (Chicago), Robert Post (Yale), David Rabban (Texas) & Keith Whittington (Yale) on the Compact. A politically diverse group known for writing & work on campus issues. tomginsburg.substack.com/p/on-the-com...

A generous and insightful review of my book Countermobilization: Policy Feedback and Backlash in a Polarized Age by @profsorelle.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Here is a video of @nytimes.com columnist @jamellebouie.net's excellent Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture @brown.edu @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @taubmancenter.bsky.social on American democracy and the current moment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgrP...

Can anyone point me to a Cost of Living by Zip Code data base?

Looking forward to today's Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture on "What's the Matter with American Democracy?" by @nytimes.com columnist @jamellebouie.net. @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social events.brown.edu/taubman/even...

This was such a nice surprise. @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social @brownupolisci.bsky.social

Many thanks to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social for speaking today @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social. So many insights into using cutting-edge research to improve government performance!

Looking forward to @elizabethlinos.bsky.social's Politics & Policy talk to @brown.edu students next Monday, hosted by @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social events.brown.edu/taubman/even...

This book is really important!

You've heard me talk about it. You've seen me write about it. And now it's your chance to pre-order my forthcoming book Coverage Denied! Combining survey & administrative data with extensive interviews, my book highlights the harms caused by coverage barriers. Hope you'll read it! cup.org/4nfM2IM

I am excited to announce that @nytimes.com columnist @jamellebouie.net will give the Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social on Oct 8 on the vital question, "What's the Matter with American Democracy?" events.brown.edu/taubman/even...

Glad the book continues to a be a useful resource for faculty and students. Gene & I welcome suggestions for improvements we can make in the next edition, especially relating to the challenges of policy analysis in an era of AI and whatever we wish to call the current political moment. Email me.

Looking forward to the panel on 9-29 celebrating the publication of "House of Diggs" by my @brownupolisci.bsky.social colleague Marion Orr. The book provides the first biography of Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr., a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus. www.eventbrite.com/e/house-of-d...

The launch of the Watson School also brought John Friedman as inaugural dean, with new leaders for three centers: @pheller.bsky.social at Saxena Center, @ericpatashnik.bsky.social at @taubmancenter.bsky.social, and @ievajusionyte.bsky.social at CHRHS. Learn more:

I am honored to have been appointed director of @taubmancenter.bsky.social @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social home.watson.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

🚨 Job! 🚨 Brown Sociology & the Watson School of International & Public Affairs are hiring a TT assistant professor whose research focuses on social policy (broadly conceived). Apply by 9/15: apply.interfolio.com/172655 Happy to chat about life at Brown, etc!

Yellen not at all pulling her punches in this op-ed for the FT www.ft.com/content/d2ea...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! On the #Decline of #Elite-#Educated #Republicans in #Congress By Craig Volden, Jonathan Wai & Alan E. Wiseman doi.org/10.1017/S153...

The 1994 ambient/ techno album entitled -- wait for it -- "PATASHNIK" by the Norwegian electronic musician and composer Biosphere is not bad background sound for working on a syllabus. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ-M...

The One Big Beautiful Bill is a big step back for US health policy. My take in @nejm.org www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A new article by David Mayhew and Ethan Yan on "memorable drives" to repeal congressional measures targeting Prohibition, the Taft–Hartley Act, and the ACA. "A congressional enactment can be just a first draft." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And Medicare: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

@jhppl.bsky.social has published birthday cards in the form of special issues celebrating the 60th anniversary of Medicaid’s enactment: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Happy 60th birthday to Medicare and Medicaid! Hang in there, I hear 60 is the new 40

Tons of my colleagues at @americanprogress.bsky.social undertook the Herculean task of creating a timeline for when various parts of the "big beautiful bill" begin and when various temporary provisions end. You can read it here: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

NEW Trending Globally #podcast: What does the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ mean for America? — Dan Richards talks with @ericpatashnik.bsky.social & Margaret Weir about Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” what it means for American society, the GOP, & the 2026 midterms.

New in JHPPL: special issue marking Medicare’s 60th anniversary. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

I enjoyed talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill with my @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social colleague Margaret Weir on the Trending Globally #podcast, hosted by Dan Richards. player.captivate.fm/episode/05f3...

I enjoyed talking about the One Big Beautiful Bill with my @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social colleague Margaret Weir on the Trending Globally #podcast, hosted by Dan Richards. player.captivate.fm/episode/05f3...

The partial repeal of the ACA through the Big Beautiful Bill is a stunning development. Here are some @jhppl.bsky.social articles that offer insights into what just happened--and what might come next. @haroldpollack.bsky.social @sarahgollust.bsky.social 1/N

America's national science agency officially homeless

Good news on FMAP.

A proposal receiving active consideration to lower the 90% federal matching share (FMAP) for new Medicaid enrollees in expansion states would unravel Medicaid expansion over time. The GOP budget bill needs to be viewed as a partial ACA repeal. www.axios.com/pro/health-c...

In the FY2026 House R Leg Branch bill, Rs included a provision that’d make it impossible for GAO to bring suit against Trump’s illegal impoundments. This will never become law, and even if it did, others could still bring suit, but it shows their fealty to Trump and his illegal budgetary actions.

A video of my recent @rwjf.bsky.social panel with @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Andrea Campbell and David Adler on Medicaid's past, present and future prospects. @jhppl.bsky.social @haroldpollack.bsky.social @russellsagefdn.bsky.social @thewatsonschool.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2c...

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Medicaid is the nation’s single largest payer of behavioral health services. Most if not all of us have some lived experience with behavioral health challenges — whether ourselves or people close to us. Slashing Medicaid would devastate this population. www.statnews.com/2025/06/12/m...

Today at 3pm! Join @povertyscholar.bsky.social (Cornell), Andrea Campbell (MIT), David Adler (RWJF) and me for a webinar on Medicaid's past, present and future at a critical moment in the program's trajectory. Event reg below. 1/2 @rwjf.bsky.social @watsoninstitute.bsky.social @jhppl.bsky.social

Medicaid at 60: Discussion on the Program's Legacy and Future dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/06/05/m...

It is a hard, but important time to be thinking and talking collectively about Medicaid. Join us next week (June 12th) for a historically grounded, future facing discussion.