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Behind the policy debate over the cost of "Medicare for all" is a crucial philosophical split: Should new public programs be based on need, or universally available?https://nyti.ms/35GDFxZ 

"One hundred years from now when schoolchildren read about American history, they will see that Donald J. Trump was the third president of the United States to be impeached" #NYTLettershttps://nyti.ms/2PGa8ix 

To Washington hawks, Iran's economic stagnation and recent protests make a strong argument against throwing Tehran a lifeline by negotiating a deal. But is that smart? @AliVaez and @vali_nasr discuss.https://nyti.ms/2PAwPoa 

"Surveillance technology takes hold quickly. There is not much time." #NYTLettershttps://nyti.ms/2Q6Ep96 

Courts have enabled Trump and his Republican allies to escape accountability to the voters for their efforts to destroy the Affordable Care Act and disrupt health care for millions of Americanshttps://nyti.ms/2EC5SKE 

"Miss America and its organizers are not beholden to any particular dogma, other than the rules of capitalism," writes @MsAUglyDaughterhttps://nyti.ms/35EIDeB 

"In this age of online quizzes, audience-voted competition shows and Reddit AMAs," writes @m_older, couldn't we find better ways to figure out which politicians we want to vote for?https://nyti.ms/2tC1TLV 

“If you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again.” Anonymous sources shared a gigantic data file with the location data of more than 12 million Americans with The Times @PrivacyProject. This is what we discovered.https://nyti.ms/34Hcwdj 

“For many Americans, the only real risk they face from having their information exposed would be embarrassment or inconvenience. But for others, like survivors of abuse, the risks could be substantial,” write @cwarzel and @stuartathompson.https://nyti.ms/35NfGxv 

After a court decision sentencing Pakistan's former military dictator Pervez Musharraf to death, the army will now have to "work hard to reclaim the impunity it has always taken for granted," argues @mohammedhanifhttps://nyti.ms/2tyuPEx 

“Depending on the polls you look at, some people who voted for Trump in 2016 have been persuaded that he did something wrong. But they haven’t been persuaded that he should be removed from office,” says @DouthatNYT on this week’s episode of “The Argument.”https://nyti.ms/34B6bjh 

Companies can easily snoop on your location. The most important thing you can do now is to disable location sharing for apps already on your phone.https://nyti.ms/393tCFA 

If you live in certain cities and use apps that share your location you could be in there, too. And if you could see the full trove, you might never use your phone the same way again. Here’s how to protect yourself.https://nyti.ms/36IuFbY 

Every minute of every day, companies are logging people's movements and storing the information in gigantic data files. The @PrivacyProject obtained one of the files. It held more than 50 billion location pings from the phones of 12 million Americans.https://nyti.ms/34xuL4x 

We received a large trove of location data on millions of Americans. Data like this is described as “anonymous.” It is not.https://nyti.ms/36RgQIk