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Matter of Opinion

The 46th: Progressive Democrats’ Next Moves Under Biden

Matter of Opinion

New York Times Opinion

Society & Culture, Ross Douthat, News, New York Times, Journalism

4.27.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Introducing The 46th, a new series from “The Argument” charting the incredibly unconventional transition from President Trump to President-elect Joe Biden. Each week through inauguration, we’ll debate what — and how — Mr. Biden should prioritize in his first 100 days. With Ross Douthat on intermittent paternity leave, Michelle Goldberg is joined by Opinion editor Aaron Retica for an interview with Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal. As the Democrats are poised to reclaim the executive branch, how should the growing divide between the party establishment and its progressive members like Representative Jayapal find common ground? Then, Kara Swisher — tech reporter and host of the NYT opinion podcast, “Sway” — joins Michelle and Aaron to discuss what social media companies are doing (or not doing) to combat misinformation and conspiracy theories surrounding the election. For background reading on this episode, visit nytimes.com/theargument.

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0:00.0

I'm Michelle Goldberg.

0:01.4

I'm Aaron Reddica, and this is the argument.

0:09.2

I know, I'm not who you were expecting.

0:11.4

Ross is the way I'm paternity leave,

0:13.3

and Ross being Ross, he's also working on a book.

0:15.8

So I'll be filling his seat now and again

0:17.8

through the inauguration.

0:26.2

But to introduce myself, I'm an editor in the opinion section.

0:29.4

I work with a number of our columnists, like Jamel Buie,

0:33.0

and Gail Collins, and Jen Senior.

0:35.7

But I also work with our contributing writers,

0:38.6

like Tom Edzel, Pete Weiner, Molly Werden,

0:41.8

a whole host of people, including some of our most conservative

0:45.7

columnists, our one pro-trip contributing writer,

0:49.4

and what I'm going to try to bring to the show

0:51.7

is a combination of my own interests

0:54.6

and what I've learned from dealing with that breadth

0:57.7

of thinking about American political life.

1:01.5

Aaron, you and I have done live debates together,

1:04.0

but I don't think you've ever been on this podcast.

1:06.4

Is that right?

1:07.5

No, that's right.

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