Domestic policy editor, @nytimes. Former reporter on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Email: kaplan@nytimes.com.

Joined April 2009
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NEW: Far-right social media sites like Gab are rife with Covid misinformation. Here, the tragic story of one Gab user and his grieving family. Randy Watt, 64, was not a Covid denier, but he did question authority. He took ivermectin and died of Covid-19. nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/po…
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NEW: Progressives have figured out how to circumvent Republicans who won’t expand Medicaid: They take the question directly to the voters. Six red states have passed ballot measures to expand Medicaid. Looks like South Dakota could be next. My report: nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/po…
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Some personal news: I’m starting a new job as the domestic policy editor for @nytimes. Excited to get started and very lucky to get to work with such a talented team.
The inimitable @thomaskaplan is taking on an exciting new role in the Washington bureau of The Times, starting this week as domestic policy editor. nytco.com/press/tom-kaplan-b…
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.@POTUS walks to the East Room to deliver remarks on the recent mass shootings and called for a Ban on Assault Weapons and New ‘Red Flag’ Laws.
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DEJA-VU—Once again, a president faces the unthinkable. And once again a president faces the limits of his power. My take on how @POTUS is dealing with another massacre of society’s most vulnerable. nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/po…
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New: McConnell wanted to go to Kyiv in part "to try to convey to the Europeans that skepticism about NATO itself expressed by the previous president was not the view of Republicans in the Senate," he said in an interview. nytimes.com/2022/05/19/us/po…
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The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 15, 2022.
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