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Thomas Kaplan @thomaskaplan

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

Joined April 2009
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22 Nov 2022
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…

A Lasting Legacy of Covid: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths (Published 2022)

The Biden administration has pushed social media giants like Facebook to curb Covid misinformation. But it is thriving on fringe platforms like Gab, a hub for extremist content.

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A year after Omicron swept through the U.S. and disrupted the holidays, Fauci does not foresee a repeat this year. From @SharonLNYT and @benjmueller: nytimes.com/2022/11/22/us/po…

A Year After the Omicron Surge, Officials See a Reduced Covid Threat This Winter (Published 2022)

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said the administration was optimistic that “we’re not going to see a repeat of what we saw last year,” when the Omicron variant swept through the country.

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Two GOP lawmakers want answers from Amtrak after it gave six-figure bonuses to executives last year. From @bymarkwalker: nytimes.com/2022/11/04/us/po…

G.O.P. Lawmakers Question Amtrak Over Six-Figure Bonuses (Published 2022)

Two Republicans on the House Transportation Committee asked the rail service to explain how it awards bonuses after top executives received payouts of more than $200,000 each last year.

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Pfizer announces encouraging findings about its new booster, though many questions remain. From @SharonLNYT: nytimes.com/2022/11/04/us/po…

New Booster Shot Targets Covid Variants More Effectively, Pfizer Says (Published 2022)

Federal officials are hoping that encouraging new findings will spur more Americans to get an updated booster before a feared surge in coronavirus cases this winter.

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3 Nov 2022
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…

Voters Have Expanded Medicaid in 6 States. Is South Dakota Next? (Published 2022)

Ten years after the Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to expand Medicaid, the politics are changing in states like South Dakota, where rural hospitals and nursing homes are struggling.

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Supporters of Medicaid expansion have succeeded in passing ballot measures in six states. The next test: South Dakota. From @SherylNYT: nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/po…

Voters Have Expanded Medicaid in 6 States. Is South Dakota Next? (Published 2022)

Ten years after the Supreme Court ruled that states did not have to expand Medicaid, the politics are changing in states like South Dakota, where rural hospitals and nursing homes are struggling.

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Less than one in 10 eligible Americans have received an updated Covid booster so far nytimes.com/2022/10/15/us/po…

As White House Presses for Booster Shots, Americans Are Slow to Get Them (Published 2022)

Only about 15 million doses of the new shots have been administered so far, and many Americans appear to be unaware of or simply uninterested in them.

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In a bid to curb overdose deaths, a group in Rhode Island is preparing to open the first supervised drug consumption site legalized by a state nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/po…

As Overdoses Soar, Rhode Island Embraces a Daring Addiction Strategy (Published 2022)

It is the first state to legalize supervised drug consumption sites, which some addiction experts believe will help lower record overdose rates.

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The CDC is scrapping its list of Covid travel advisories for foreign countries. From @ChrisCameronNYT: nytimes.com/2022/10/03/us/po…

C.D.C. Ends Country-by-Country Covid Travel Advisories (Published 2022)

The agency said it would no longer maintain a list of coronavirus travel warnings because “fewer countries are testing or reporting Covid-19 cases,” limiting its ability to assess travel risks.

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The CDC says early data offers positive signs about the monkeypox vaccine, though the findings have many limitations nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/po…

C.D.C. Says Early Data Offers Positive Signs About Monkeypox Vaccine (Published 2022)

The agency said people who received a single dose of the vaccine were substantially less likely to get infected than those who did not, but the analysis came with major limitations.

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With monkeypox cases on the decline, federal health officials are optimistic that the virus can be eliminated in the U.S. From @SherylNYT: nytimes.com/2022/09/22/us/po…

Officials Hopeful That Monkeypox Can Be Eliminated in the U.S. (Published 2022)

Cases are declining nationally, and the deputy coordinator of the White House monkeypox response team said he expected that, over time, they would drop to a trickle.

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TSA officers have discovered more than 4,600 guns at airport security checkpoints this year, @bymarkwalker reports nytimes.com/2022/09/21/us/po…

Guns Found at Airport Checkpoints Are On Track to Break Record (Published 2022)

This year, Transportation Security Administration officers have already discovered more than 4,600 guns at airport security checkpoints, and about 87 percent of them were loaded.

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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.
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13 Sep 2022
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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13 Sep 2022
Morning, Twitter. I wrote about Ron DeSantis for the next @NYTmag: nytimes.com/2022/09/13/magaz…

Is Ron DeSantis the Future of the Republican Party? (Published 2022)

For years, Democrats have worried about the prospect of a more disciplined heir to Trump. In Florida’s pugilistic governor, that candidate may have arrived.

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3 Jun 2022
.@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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26 May 2022
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…

Biden Calls for Action After Texas Shooting, but Faces Limits of His Power (Published 2022)

White House officials said the president was under no illusions that the Senate would pass gun safety legislation given continued opposition by Republicans.

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23 May 2022
Okay, I profiled Guy Fieri. nytimes.com/2022/05/23/dinin…

Guy Fieri, Elder Statesman of Flavortown (Published 2022)

TV’s spike-haired rhapsodist of roadside eats is still playing it for laughs. But he’s also winning food-world respect as a sort of graying eminence.

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19 May 2022
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…

The Senate overwhelmingly approves $40 billion in aid to Ukraine, sending it to Biden. (Published...

The measure’s smooth path through Congress reflected a broad consensus on Capitol Hill, for now, to devote massive sums to supporting Ukraine’s war effort with little debate.

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New from @ktbenner: DOJ employees ask the Biden admin to grant time off to federal workers who need to travel out of state to obtain abortions nytimes.com/2022/05/18/us/po…

Justice Dept. Employees Urge Administration to Grant Leave for Out-of-State Abortions (Published...

The request for federal employees to be granted time off to travel out of state for the procedure comes as large companies are starting to make accommodations in the area.

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14 May 2022
The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 15, 2022.
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