Daniel Weiner

Aug 12, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Daniel Weiner |Owen Bacskai

This article first appeared at The Guardian. It was 50 years ago – on 9 August 1974 – Richard Nixon resigned as president amid the “Watergate” scandal. In the American consciousness, Watergate typically means the botched break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the resulting illegal cover-up (facts that are newly relevant in the wake of the US supreme court’s much-criticized decision on presidential immunity last month).

Jul 29, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Daniel Weiner

View the entire Money in the 2024 Election series President Biden’s decision to bow out of the 2024 presidential race has raised a pressing question now that he is likely to be replaced at the top of the ticket by Vice President Kamala Harris: What will become of the Biden-Harris campaign’s substantial campaign war chest, which stood at some $240 million as of the day he left the race?

Jul 24, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Daniel Weiner

View the entire Money in the 2024 Election series Daniel Weiner, director of the Brennan Center’s Elections and Government Program, breaks down the evolving state of money in politics and the reforms needed to make our democracy more inclusive and functional. Big money in campaigns has always been with us. Why should we worry about it now? American campaign finance has been transformed since 2010, the year the Supreme Court swept away more than a century of law in the Citizens United decision.

Jul 16, 2024 | healio.com | Isabella Hornick |Kristen Dowd |Daniel Weiner

You've successfully added to your alerts. You will receive an email when new content is published. Click Here to Manage Email Alerts We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Key takeaways: Black children had lower FEV1 and FVC percent predicted after race-neutral vs. -specific equation use. Black vs. white children were more likely to have spirometry pattern changes with the neutral equations.

May 28, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Erick Forno |Daniel Weiner |Christian Rosas-Salazar

Spirometry Interpretation After Implementation of Race-Neutral Reference Equations in Children Key PointsQuestion  How do spirometry results and patterns change when implementing the Global Lung Function Initiative race-neutral reference equations (GLIN, 2023)? Findings  This cross-sectional study of 24 630 children found differences in spirometry results when switching to GLIN.