A thrilling chance to slash child poverty in America

Myanmar coup, Aleksei Navalny and my student call out! 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The United States has long had one of the highest rates of child poverty in the advanced world, but now we have a thrilling breakthrough that hasn’t received the attention it deserves: President Biden has offered a proposal to cut child poverty by half in his $1.9 trillion “American Rescue Plan” — and this is historic. “The American Rescue Plan is the most ambitious proposal to reduce child poverty ever proposed by an American president,” Jason Furman, a Harvard economist, told me. A couple of decades from now, America will look pretty much the same whether direct payments end up being $1,000 or $1,400. But this will be a transformed nation if we’re able to slash child poverty on our watch. So the most distressing part of the Republican senators’ counterproposal to Biden was their decision to drop the plan to curb child poverty. That’s [the topic of my column](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh_cLLP0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMi8wMy9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLWNoaWxkLXBvdmVydHkuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIxMDIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNjczNSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01MDk1MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYBrLPRtg-u1WeFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) today. I see child poverty as a moral stain on our country, and we have a good shot at scrubbing it away. [Please read my column and share](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh_cLLP0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMi8wMy9vcGluaW9uL2JpZGVuLWNoaWxkLXBvdmVydHkuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIxMDIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNjczNSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01MDk1MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYBrLPRtg-u1WeFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA). 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Support for Suu Kyi has been muted because she had turned into an apologist in recent years for the military’s genocide against the Rohingya ethnic minority, but we should still recognize that the coup is a disaster for the people of Myanmar. The United States frankly doesn’t have much leverage on the Myanmar military, and we should avoid broad sanctions that will hurt ordinary citizens. It’s inspiring to see ordinary Myanmar citizens doing what they can to resist, but it’s tough for unarmed citizens to stand up to a ruthless army. One of my fears is that the military has absorbed the lesson that its genocide was successful, helping solve an ethnic “problem” without too high an international price, and that it may also apply increasing brutality to other ethnic minorities in the various conflicts around the country. [I’ve reported](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh_cLLP0TpaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOC8wMy8wMi9vcGluaW9uL2ktc2F3LWEtZ2Vub2NpZGUtaW4tc2xvdy1tb3Rpb24uaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIxMDIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNjczNSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01MDk1MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYBrLPRtg-u1WeFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) several times on the genocide there and have been horrified by what I’ve seen, so, please, let’s all stay vigilant. 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And when they recognize this — and that moment will come — all of this will fall apart, because you cannot lock up the whole country …. 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Now we’ll have Vladimir the Poisoner of Underpants.” Calling Students and Teachers … I regularly get letters or emails from school classes that are studying journalism or writing, in which a student has been tasked with writing a Kristof-style column. I just received such a column from a student at San Clemente High School in California. It made me think that I might publish an occasional excerpt from such student writing in this newsletter. It would probably only be a paragraph or two, and I’d be most interested in topics that reflect student experiences and expertise, something that a student can write that might surprise or challenge us adults. So If you have something like that, email us at kristof-newsletter@nytimes.com. No promises, but I think it’d be fun to have those voices so it feels more peer to peer for the youths reading. The World of Conspiracy Theories I know someone who insists both that a) the coronavirus is a hoax, and b) he had it. So I was interested to read [an essay](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh_cLLP0TjaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wMi8wMy9vcGluaW9uL3Fhbm9uLWNvbnNwaXJhY3ktdGhlb3JpZXMuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIxMDIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNjczNSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01MDk1MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYBrLPRtg-u1WeFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) by my colleague Tom Edsall saying that conspiracy theories are often contradictory. For example, the more people believe that Osama bin Laden was already dead when the U.S. raided his compound, the more they believe that he’s still alive. Or the more people believe that Princess Diana faked her own death, the more they believe she was murdered. That obviously makes conspiracy theories difficult to uproot, because they seem impervious to logic. What is appealing about them to some people is that they offer a secret truth unavailable to others, not that they are coherent. And when people live in social media bubbles that propel such conspiracy theories, or watch Sean Hannity or OAN, conspiracy theories persist. Forward This Newsletter I started this newsletter as something of a lark, so I’m flattered that it now has a circulation larger than that of many American newspapers. But many of my readers still don’t know of the newsletter’s existence, or realize that it’s free. So if you know someone who would benefit, please forward to them or send them to [nytimes.com/kristofemail](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRh_cLLP0TdaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vbmV3c2xldHRlcnMvbmljaG9sYXMta3Jpc3RvZj9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD00NSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ua18yMDIxMDIwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0yNjczNSZubD1uaWNob2xhcy1rcmlzdG9mJnBhcnRuZXI9c29jaWFsJnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01MDk1MyZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKYBrLPRtg-u1WeFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) to sign up for it. Our Chance to Make History and Slash Child Poverty I truly believe that America’s levels of child poverty are a moral stain on our nation. We’re a rich nation, we know how to reduce child poverty — and we have acquiesced in it. This is our choice. So let’s make a better choice. The Biden plan offers a transformational plan to cut child poverty in half. 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