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From the Magazine
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Summer 2017
The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars
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Summer 2017
Private Equity: The New Neighborhood Loan Sharks
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Summer 2017
Who Is Wilbur Ross?
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Summer 2017
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion
Must-Reads
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Is the Kobach Commission Violating the Law?
Jul 7, 2017
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Getting Serious About 2018
Jul 5, 2017
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Randy Bryce, Working Man Gone Viral, on His Bid to Beat Paul Ryan
Jul 6, 2017
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Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
Jun 21, 2017
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The Coming Democratic Infighting Over Single-Payer Health Care
Jul 2, 2017
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Black, American, and Armed
Jul 6, 2017
The Magazine
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Vol. 3 No. 28Summer 2017
Columns
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The European Mirror
Is there any way out of the dialectic of neoliberal policies producing economic backlash and support for the nationalist far right?
Notebook
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Settlements: The Real Story
Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics. -
Silk Roadblock
Yo-Yo Ma's celebrated project for global understanding through music runs into Donald Trump's sour note. -
Ignoring Police Violence
Baltimore officials accepted a voluntary settlement to reduce police abuses. Jeff Sessions wants to kill it.
Culture
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State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice
Jim Crow was the descendant of Southern slavery. More shocking is the legacy of government-enforced racism in the North. -
Fiscal Purgatory in New York
How New York’s budget crisis was used to roll back expansive government -
The Long Arc of Protest
While digital media make it easier to spread activist messages, today’s movements face many of the same problems their forerunners did. -
Goodbye to All That Democracy
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Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?
The mixed record of America’s new rich as often self-interested philanthropists
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The Wages of NeglectThe Wages of Neglect
Place Matters
As in the 1930s, progressives need economic development strategies for the left-behind regions of the country. -
The Wages of Neglect
The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base. -
The Wages of Neglect
The Pittsburgh Conundrum
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The Wages of Neglect
A Tale of Two Populisms
The elite the white working class loathes is politicians. -
The Wages of Neglect
Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers. -
The Wages of Neglect
Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class. -
The Wages of Neglect
Tilting at Windmills
Why the green jobs promise is still unfulfilled -
Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion
The Kansas governor’s attempt to create supply-side nirvana in Middle America not only failed to grow the economy—it created a crippling crisis of government that led to a statewide rejection of his politics. -
Private Equity: The New Neighborhood Loan Sharks
Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again. -
Who Is Wilbur Ross?
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Will Trump Kill the CFPB?
Created in response to the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned nearly $12 billion to consumers—which may be exactly why it’s now under threat. -
The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars
L.A. voters have chosen to tax themselves to build a citywide rail system. Can rail also resurrect the city’s long-vanished middle class? -
Charlie and the MBTA
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s privatization initiative at greater Boston’s transit authority has realized short-term savings—but the cure is still adequate public investment.
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In the Magazine
The White Working Class
Democrats can’t retake Congress without more white working-class votes. In conjunction with The Democratic Strategist, we present 13 articles on why the Democrats should, and how they can, win those votes—progressively.
Trickle Downers
The Prospect's ongoing exposé of the folly, dysfunctions, and sheer idiocy of feed-the-rich economic policies.
House GOP Budget Comes Straight from the Trickle-Down Playbook
The Republicans’ budgetary blueprint paves the path for tax cuts for the wealthy, a military buildup, and spending cuts for entitlement programs.
GOP Eager to Repeal Rule that Allows Consumers to Sue Conniving Banks
Republicans pretend it’s about dismantling the “administrative state.” But it’s all about market power.
As Trump Gears Up for Big Tax Cuts, Seattle Opts to Tax Wealthy
The progressive city is once again paving the way, and strongly rebuking trickle-down economics.
Does the Fed Think Black Lives Matter?
Putting the brakes on the economy would disproportionately damage black America.
Will Trump Kill the CFPB?
Created in response to the financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned nearly $12 billion to consumers—which may be exactly why it’s now under threat.
