David Leonhardt

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Senior writer, N.Y. Times. Author, "Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream." Best book of the year, Atlantic, FT & TNR. Now in paperback.

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1	Oct 7, '19	Watch how radically taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years: (Full column: )	64.9×	0	82k	47k	4.9k
2	Dec 14, '17	After we published a list of Trump's lies this summer, some of his supporters asked us to compare Trump to other presidents. We've done so and just published the results:	22.7×	0	27k	19k	5
3	Oct 6, '19	Last year, for the first time on record, the 400 wealthiest Americans paid a lower total tax rate than any other income group.	18.9×	0	23k	15k	981
4	Jan 5, '19	1. The unrelenting chaos that President Trump creates can sometimes obscure the big picture. But the big picture is simple: The United States has never had a president as demonstra	15.2×	0	25k	8.8k	395
5	Jan 26, '18	The Fox News timeline is so illuminating: 1. Network star instinctively denies a report that sounds bad for Trump. 2. Fox’s actual journalists confirm report. 3. Star has to revers	11.2×	0	20k	7k	0
6	May 17, '17	Subscribers of the NYT, WaPo & other publications are paying for the investigations and oversight that the U.S. Congress won't conduct.	10.2×	0	17k	6.2k	1
7	Nov 6, '17	Wow: Households making $5+ million get an average tax cut of $300k. Households making below $55,000 get a tax hike.	9.3×	0	7.9k	9k	0
8	Mar 20, '17	Our president is a liar. The question now is how serious his lies are.	8.3×	0	12k	6.3k	0
9	Jan 4, '22	American children are starting 2022 in crisis. I'm not sure that many people fully grasp the depth of it. 🧵	7.1×	0	8.9k	3.1k	1.2k
10	Aug 22, '23	I consider this chart to be the clearest indictment of our country’s path over the last several decades: In 1980, the U.S. had a typical life expectancy for an affluent country. To	6.9×	3.6M	5.8k	2k	766
11	Jan 22, '21	I just took a 1,600-mile road trip from Washington to St. Louis and back. I was shaken by what I saw. (1/x)	5.9×	0	7.3k	2.2k	245
12	Oct 5, '18	Let's be clear here: Charles Grassley is a United States Senator. He is responsible for his words. And his words here amount to an anti-Semitic smear.	5.6×	0	6.4k	2.6k	46
13	Mar 18, '20	President Trump is now claiming that he always took coronavirus seriously. In fact, he spent months dismissing it as less serious than the seasonal flu. During this time, he could	5.6×	0	9.3k	3.1k	405
14	Sep 10, '18	Sons who brag about Russian money. A history of shady Russian deals. Paranoia about scrutiny of his businesses. And a harassment campaign against the government's top experts in Ru	5.4×	0	8k	4k	120
15	Sep 27, '17	The Vice President of the United States is for a man who thinks Muslims should be barred from Congress and homosexuality should be illegal.	5.1×	0	6.7k	4k	0
16	Jun 29, '20	The current outbreak in the U.S. looks like nothing in any other rich country:	5.1×	0	6.6k	3.2k	172
17	Mar 23, '20	The best way to keep the economy strong — by far — would have been to take the virus seriously in January and February. A massive increase in testing and quarantining could have si	5.1×	0	10k	2.4k	102
18	Apr 16, '18	Every one of the last four Republican presidents has increased the deficit. Every one of the last three Democratic presidents has reduced the deficit.	4.9×	0	5.9k	4k	83
19	Nov 11, '16	Clinton is on pace to win the popular vote by a larger % than Gore in 2000. And Nixon in 1968. And Kennedy in 1960.	4.7×	0	4.6k	4.4k	0
20	Mar 18, '20	House Democrats should refuse to pass any big stimulus bill without provisions to ensure that the country can hold a presidential election in November. They have the leverage to do	4.2×	0	7k	2.6k	34
21	Mar 15, '20	"We have it very well under control." "We pretty much shut it down." "The numbers are going to get progressively better." "We’re going very substantially down, not up." "One day —	4.2×	0	6.5k	2.7k	191
22	Jun 15, '18	The main message of the IG report is that President Trump is lying about the Justice Department and FBI.	4.1×	0	5.2k	2.6k	30
23	Oct 8, '16	Calling Mexicans rapists Mocking a POW Mocking the disabled Banning Muslims Cozying up to Putin Calling women dogs And they're "stunned."	3.9×	0	4.5k	3.6k	0
24	Jan 15, '18	Donald Trump has been obsessed with race the entire time that’s he’s been a public figure. Here’s a list of his many racist statements, with video:	3.7×	0	4.4k	3.2k	3
25	Feb 19, '21	For weeks, the public messages about vaccines have been more negative than the facts warrant. Now we are seeing the cost: A large percentage of Americans wouldn't take a vaccine if	3.7×	0	5.3k	1.8k	269
26	Jan 31, '19	If you’ve already written (or read!) a piece about Howard Schultz and you’re tempted to do another, ask yourself: Have I written about each of the non-billionaires planning to run?	3.4×	0	7.1k	1.6k	8
27	Jan 12, '18	We cannot know his private thoughts. But his behavior is clear, and we shouldn’t be afraid to admit it: President Donald Trump is a racist.	3.3×	0	5.6k	1.9k	1
28	Aug 11, '20	If they win, Biden and Harris will be the first President/Vice President in 40 years not to have an Ivy League degree.	3.3×	0	7.3k	793	53
29	Feb 2, '17	An incomplete list of times that Australia has been allied with the United States: WW1 WW2 Korea Vietnam Iraq 1 Afghanistan Iraq 2 ISIS	3.2×	0	4.3k	2.5k	1
30	Oct 20, '16	Trump, enemy of democracy: 1) My opponent shouldn't be allowed to run 2) If I lose, I may dispute outcome 3) If I win, she will go to jail.	3.1×	0	3.9k	2.8k	0
31	Jan 22, '21	I feel like I just drove across a country that’s losing a winnable fight. (fin)	3.1×	0	5.7k	934	55
32	Jan 7, '20	The United States has entered a serious national security conflict, and the whole world knows our president is a habitual liar.	2.9×	0	5.3k	1.7k	30
33	Jul 17, '23	The U.S. has reached a major milestone in the long struggle against Covid: The total number of Americans dying each day — from any cause — is no longer historically abnormal.	2.9×	1.5M	2.2k	555	145
34	Dec 7, '17	Brutal CBS poll on tax bill: 35% approval 24% say it helps their own family, 69% say it helps wealthy 54% say it favors big donors vs 10% who say average Americans 61% say Medicare	2.7×	0	3.3k	2.2k	0
35	Dec 19, '17	Senator Bob Corker said he would oppose any tax bill that added “one penny” to the deficit. This bill adds approximately 100,000,000,000,000 pennies to the deficit over the next de	2.7×	0	3.4k	2k	0
36	Jul 29, '20	One reason the U.S. is suffering through a worse outbreak than any other rich country: The size and strength of right-wing media organizations here that broadcast scientific falseh	2.7×	0	4.1k	1.7k	163
37	Feb 26, '18	55 percent of Americans aged 60 or older voted in the 2014 midterm elections. 16 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 did. This year, the size of that gap may determine whether the D	2.6×	0	3.7k	2k	2
38	Feb 19, '21	The evidence so far suggests that a full vaccine dose: 1. effectively eliminates the risk of Covid death 2. nearly eliminates the risk of hospitalization 3. drastically reduces the	2.6×	0	4.5k	1.6k	110
39	Nov 14, '18	Senator Rubio, I’m disappointed that you are spreading false conspiracy theories for the sake of partisan gain.	2.6×	0	4.6k	1.3k	25
40	Sep 27, '21	The political divide over vaccinations is so large that almost every reliably blue state now has a higher vaccination rate than almost every reliably red state. 🧵	2.5×	0	3.7k	1.3k	199
41	Jan 22, '21	Almost everywhere I stopped — gas stations, rest stops and hotels, across Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois — there was a sign on the door saying th	2.4×	0	3.9k	593	16
42	Jan 5, '19	3. This list instead focuses on demonstrable ways that Trump has broken the law or violated his oath. ONE: Trump has used the presidency for personal enrichment. TWO: He has violat	2.4×	0	4.2k	1.3k	35
43	Jul 8, '20	Arizona has had more new virus cases (per capita) over the last week than any country in the world. Here's a ranking that treats each U.S. state as a country: 1. Arizona 2. Florida	2.3×	0	2.3k	1.7k	100
44	Dec 18, '17	Most members of the middle class and poor pay a higher total tax rate than they did a half century ago. The rich pay a much lower rate. The G.O.P. tax bill will aggravate the situa	2.3×	0	2.5k	2.2k	1
45	Mar 14, '18	GOP House districts less Republican than PA18: AL2 AK AZ2 AZ5 AZ6 AR2 CA1 CA4 CA8 CA10 CA21 CA22 CA25 CA39 CA42 CA45 CA48 CA49 CA50 CO3 CO6 FL3 FL6 FL8 FL15 FL15 FL16 FL17 FL18 FL2	2.3×	0	3.2k	1.7k	4
46	Jan 12, '18	Wisconsin under Scott Walker has had slower average job growth than the other 49 actual states. But Grover is correct to suggest that Wisconsin has had faster job growth than the m	2.2×	0	3.7k	1.5k	0
47	Sep 14, '18	Obama was telling the truth. Then the GOP did everything it could to ruin the private markets in Obamacare. Which means that the only way to expand coverage now is government-run i	2.2×	0	3.9k	1.3k	21
48	Feb 21, '19	1990: World population: 5.3 billion People in extreme poverty: 1.9 billion Today: World population: 7.6 billion People in extreme poverty: 0.7 billion.	2.1×	0	3.4k	1.3k	53
49	Nov 20, '17	The Senate tax bill is, at root, a middle-class tax hike to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy. 98% of households making $5+ million get a tax cut. 27% of household making $30k-$100	2.0×	0	1.9k	1.9k	0
50	Mar 18, '19	He has mused about his supporters -- "the tough people" -- committing violence. He has talked about “Second Amendment people” preventing the appointment of liberal judges. He has s	2.0×	0	3.1k	1.3k	29
51	Jan 5, '19	5. Achieving this outcome won't be easy. And it should not involve a Democratic House quickly impeaching him -- which would actually be a favor to Trump. But achieving his removal	1.8×	0	3.5k	844	32
52	May 11, '21	The CDC says that “less than 10%” of Covid transmission occurs outdoors. Which sounds like a lot of outdoors transmission. If anything close to 10% was correct, it would mean thous	1.8×	0	3.1k	684	253
53	Feb 11, '22	If you're waiting for the CDC to tell you how to think about masks, here's something to consider: Do you eat more than a teaspoon of salt a day? The CDC says you should not. Expert	1.8×	0	2k	479	168
54	Jan 29, '18	When you look at the evidence all in one place, it’s overwhelming: Donald Trump has obstructed justice.	1.7×	0	2.6k	1.2k	1
55	Jan 28, '19	The old are getting richer, and the young are getting poorer: Over the past three decades, the net worth of the 65+ age group has risen more than 60%. The net worth of the under-45	1.7×	0	1.7k	1.3k	92
56	Jan 5, '19	4. For the country’s sake, there is only one acceptable outcome, just as there was after Americans realized in 1974 that a criminal was occupying the Oval Office. The president mus	1.7×	0	3.6k	798	4
57	Feb 19, '21	This table from @ashishkjha tells the story: (8/x)	1.7×	0	2.8k	970	101
58	Mar 14, '17	Independent sources of information that team Trump has tried to delegitimize: - federal judges - media - intelligence agencies - CBO	1.7×	0	2.1k	1.4k	0
59	Nov 7, '18	The Green Party continues to be a huge help to the Republican Party. From Arizona:	1.7×	0	2k	995	9
60	Sep 15, '21	Vaccines work, California edition:	1.7×	0	3.2k	771	68
61	Jan 5, '19	2. Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors can be separated into four categories. And this list is conservative. It does not include the possibility that his campaign coordinated stra	1.7×	0	3.3k	784	8
62	Jan 22, '21	Wearing a mask isn’t much fun, I realize. But the inconvenience sure seems worth the benefits. Study after study has shown that masks reduce the virus’s spread. (6/x)	1.6×	0	3.4k	321	5
63	Jan 22, '21	Millions of Americans have decided they would prefer more Covid — for their communities and potentially for their families and themselves — to more masks. (7/x)	1.5×	0	3.4k	470	10
64	Nov 13, '21	Covid now presents the sort of risk to most vaccinated people that we unthinkingly accept in other parts of life. And Covid isn’t going to disappear. In many ways, the future has a	1.5×	0	2k	548	390
65	Jan 22, '21	Accelerating the vaccination campaign is an urgent task for Biden, and he seems to have a plan. But if he doesn’t find a way to persuade more Americans to do their part to slow the	1.5×	0	3.2k	440	23
66	Jun 2, '21	When the C.D.C. loosened its mask guidelines three weeks ago, many people were anxious: Would it lead unvaccinated people to take off their masks and cause a surge of new cases? So	1.4×	0	2.9k	506	83
67	Jan 22, '21	Nationwide, about half of Americans are not wearing masks when in close contact with people outside their households, according to a survey by the University of Southern California	1.4×	0	3k	468	17
68	Jan 17, '17	Obama is no FDR, but he is the most successful Democratic president since FDR. And Trump is unlikely to change that.	1.3×	0	2k	899	0
69	Jun 2, '20	The four large countries where the virus is growing the fastest - Brazil, Russia, the U.K. and U.S. - have something in common. They're led by "illiberal populists" who frequently	1.3×	0	2k	875	50
70	Feb 19, '21	What would be a more accurate message about vaccines? “They’re safe. They’re highly effective against serious disease. And the emerging evidence about infectiousness looks really g	1.3×	0	2.6k	672	27
71	Jan 11, '22	Some of the timeliest data on Covid outcomes by vaccination status comes from New York City and the Seattle area, and the two are telling a consistent story. 🧵	1.3×	0	2.3k	552	201
72	Jan 22, '21	At a Fairfield Inn in Ohio, a middle-aged couple sat unmasked on a lobby sofa for hours, drinking beers and scrolling through their phones. The hotel staff evidently did nothing ab	1.3×	0	2.7k	250	2
73	Sep 27, '21	In counties where Donald Trump received at least 70 percent of the vote, the virus has killed about 47 out of every 100,000 people since the end of June, per @charles_gaba. In coun	1.3×	0	1.7k	761	73
74	Mar 31, '17	Wow. It's not as big as Russia, but the signs of a Tom Price personal-enrichment scandal continue to mount.	1.2×	0	1.6k	1k	0
75	Mar 16, '20	Trump faced a series of choices: Take aggressive measures to slow the spread of the virus? Ramp up efforts to produce test kits. Urge Americans to take precautions? Above all, use	1.2×	0	1.6k	874	50
76	Dec 31, '18	The most significant story of 2018 wasn’t Donald Trump or Robert Mueller. It was climate change.	1.2×	0	1.7k	649	27
77	Oct 6, '21	I tried to buy a rapid at-home Covid test yesterday. It didn’t go well. The U.S. approach to Covid testing has been a failure — mostly because of an FDA decision to prioritize bure	1.2×	0	2.4k	358	87
78	Jan 18, '21	Right now, public discussion of the vaccines is full of warnings about their limitations, like: They’re not 100 percent effective. And: Even vaccinated people may be able to spread	1.2×	0	1.9k	532	87
79	May 20, '21	One of the great things about capitalism is that it offers a simple solution for “labor shortages”: Pay workers more. Right now, corporate profits are historically high, and wages	1.2×	0	1.8k	662	72
80	Jan 18, '17	For every poor student the Ivy League launches into the middle class and beyond, City U. of New York launches six.	1.1×	0	1.6k	857	0
81	Nov 18, '19	Mueller and Comey have served their country for decades. Yet when confronted with a test of character - having to choose between their personal image and their country - they faile	1.1×	0	2.2k	544	33
82	Sep 22, '19	Donald Trump vs. the United States of America.	1.1×	0	1.5k	661	73
83	May 26, '21	The C.D.C. has defended its description of outdoor Covid transmission by citing a single study. It turns out that an author of the very same study depicts it quite differently. Thi	1.0×	0	1.9k	443	144
84	Feb 19, '21	The bottom line: The widespread negative public messaging about the vaccines is fundamentally misleading, and it's damaging to public health. (fin)	1.0×	0	1.9k	400	48
85	Jan 22, '21	At a convenience store in Indiana, a hand-drawn sign on the door read: “Face masks are required. Please do not enter without one!!” Customers did anyway. (4/x)	1.0×	0	2.5k	221	2
86	Sep 29, '17	The reporters who broke this story are @rachanadixit and @ddiamond, of @politico. As a taxpayer, I say thank you.	1.0×	0	2.3k	399	0
87	Mar 15, '19	Elizabeth Warren has offered by far the most ambitious agenda of any 2020 candidate. I don't agree with every part of it, but she is trying to solve the central problem in the U.S.	1.0×	0	1.8k	491	41
88	Sep 3, '18	By appearances, they were honoring John McCain and showing what a better America could look like. But it was all an act. The Congressional Republicans at McCain’s memorial service	1.0×	0	1.6k	594	12
89	Jan 18, '21	“We’re underselling the vaccine,” Dr. Aaron Richterman at Penn said. “It’s going to save your life — that’s where the emphasis has to be right now,” Dr. Peter Hotez at Baylor said.	0.9×	0	2k	381	14
90	Mar 23, '20	Instead of taking the virus seriously in January and February, the president said it was an overhyped problem that was less serious than the flu and would soon disappear.	0.9×	0	1.7k	503	31
91	Feb 18, '22	This is a tragedy, and a preventable tragedy. A new Harvard study estimates that 135,000 Americans unnecessarily died in the second half of 2021 because of lack of vaccination. Pol	0.9×	0	1.6k	446	28
92	Jan 18, '21	Dr. Offit told me we should be greeting the Covid vaccines with the same enthusiasm that greeted the polio vaccine: “It should be this rallying cry.” Here’s my attempt at summarizi	0.9×	0	1.6k	390	109
93	Jul 28, '17	Unlike many medical org's, AARP has fought hard against these bills, rather than opposing mostly through press release.	0.8×	0	1.4k	557	0
94	Feb 19, '21	Why so much skepticism? Think about all of the negative things you’ve heard about the vaccines: - They aren’t 100% effective. - Vaccinated people may be contagious. - The virus var	0.8×	0	1.7k	275	20
95	Jan 18, '21	The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines are “essentially 100 percent effective against serious disease,” Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital	0.8×	0	1.7k	337	16
96	Mar 23, '20	More people will get sick. More will die. And the recession will be deeper. Trump is betting that the scientists, doctors and leaders of other countries are all wrong. If they’re n	0.8×	0	1.6k	338	10
97	Mar 23, '20	Now that the president is again minimizing the seriousness of the virus — and try to wishcast the economy back to normal — he will worsen its spread and ultimately prolong the nati	0.7×	0	1.6k	331	8
98	Mar 23, '20	Today’s remarks suggest Trump is OK with coronavirus being, in effect, Trumpvirus. (6/6)	0.7×	0	1.6k	293	3
99	Feb 19, '21	The public messaging from many experts – and, yes, from us in the media – often makes the vaccines sound mediocre if not ineffectual. “Our messaging is bad, really bad,” says epide	0.7×	0	1.6k	256	11
100	Mar 7, '18	Or maybe Obama pushed against identity politics, but something about him caused identity politics to take center stage anyway.	0.7×	0	1.5k	256	5

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