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Republicans Against Legroom

Harold Meyerson

Apr 14, 2016

Maximizing airline shareholder value means minimizing passenger comfort, and GOP senators vote to keep it that way.
Chaotic Primaries Signal Voting Trouble Ahead

Eliza Newlin Carney

Apr 14, 2016

American elections are still plagued by budget shortfalls, bad planning, restrictive state laws, and a federal agency that makes voting harder, not easier—a recipe for disaster on Election Day.
The Argument for Tuition-Free College

Keith Ellison

Apr 14, 2016

Soaring tuitions and student loan debt are placing higher education beyond the reach of many American students. It’s time to make college free and accessible to all.
How Plutocrats Cripple the IRS

Martin Lobel

Apr 13, 2016

You pay more because elites use their influence to pay less.
Is Pope Francis a Bernie Bro?

Adele M. Stan

Apr 13, 2016

The Vatican’s invitation to Sanders isn’t the first time a papal confidante undermined a woman candidate in a U.S. presidential race.
When Abortions Are Hard to Get

Rachel M. Cohen

Apr 13, 2016

As the number of state restrictions grows, self-induced procedures remain shrouded in secrecy.
Did Cuomo Miss His Chance to Enact Ethics Reform?

Justin Miller

Apr 12, 2016

Watchdogs worry that the state’s best chance at rooting out corruption has slipped away, yet again.
The Strange Silence about Sanders’s Tax Proposals

Paul Starr

Apr 12, 2016

Bernie Sanders has proposed tax increases that ought to give Democrats pause, but hardly anyone is talking about them.

Spring 2016

School Closures: A Blunt Instrument

Rachel M. Cohen

Shuttering “failed schools” can have painful consequences for children and neighborhoods.
Spring 2016

The Great Diversion

Gabrielle Gurley

Charter schools may or may not improve student outcomes—but they divert funds from other public schools.
Spring 2016

Crashing the Party

Eliza Newlin Carney

An earthquake has hit the GOP, and it’s shaking up Democrats as well. The election poses dangers for both parties, but Republicans face the greater peril; even if they win the White House, they will have lost their party.
Spring 2016

The Other Woman: Elizabeth Warren and the 2016 Election

Robert Kuttner

Senator Warren is not running, but she will be a major influence this year.

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Must-Reads

Is Ted Cruz the New Republican Establishment?

Adele M. Stan

Mar 23, 2016

With the endorsements of Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham, the anti-Trump is poised to reshape the GOP in his own way.
It Doesn't Matter What Trump Said about Israel. It Matters That He Got to Say It.

Gershom Gorenberg

Mar 23, 2016

First Adelson tilted toward Trump, then AIPAC gave him a counterfeit stamp of legitimacy.
Trump and the Klan: A New Controversy with Old Roots

Ben Railton

Mar 7, 2016

The Ku Klux Klan’s dominant role in the 1924 Democratic National Convention was a telling moment with 21st century echoes.
What Super Tuesday Means for Establishment Politics

Harold Meyerson

Mar 2, 2016

Trump and Clinton attack the 1 percent after decisive victories on Super Tuesday.
Prospect Debate: The Cost of Sanders’s Single-Payer Health Plan

The Editors

Feb 29, 2016

An exchange including Gerald Friedman, Kenneth Thorpe, and Paul Starr over the costs, resulting taxes, and political implications of Sanders's health plan
The War on the Poor

Peter Edelman

Dec 21, 2015

The welfare reform of the 1990s left millions of Americans near destitution.

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Vol. 27 No. 2

Spring 2016
Columns

The Democrats as a Movement Party

Paul Starr

What would it take to get the “broken engine of progressive politics” working again?

Notebook

Crashing the Party

Eliza Newlin Carney

An earthquake has hit the GOP, and it’s shaking up Democrats as well. The election poses dangers for both parties, but Republicans face the greater peril; even if they win the White House, they will have lost their party.

Toward a 21st-Century Labor Movement

David Rolf

The old model of collective bargaining can’t be resurrected. Herewith, some new models of how workers can win and wield power.

Heights of Privilege

James Parrott

How the rich get relief on property taxes—and what to do about it.

Maryland Senate Showdown Pits Left Against Lefter

Nathalie Baptiste

In the state's Senate primary, an establishment progressive faces a more progressive outsider. Sound familiar?

Culture

Can the Working Family Work in America?

Stephanie Coontz

America still hasn’t adjusted to family realities in the 21st century. Here’s what needs to be done and why we need to do it.

Worlds of Inequality

Miles Corak

The winners and losers of globalization. Must it be this way?

A Class Act?

Rich Yeselson

If the new proletariat starts identifying as a class, it could transform politics.

The Bankers' Bank

Mike Konczal

Does the Federal Reserve govern the banking system—or vice versa?
Features

The Long March of Bernie’s Army

Harold Meyerson

Where it came from; where it’s headed.

The Other Woman: Elizabeth Warren and the 2016 Election

Robert Kuttner

Senator Warren is not running, but she will be a major influence this year.

What Good Are Hedge Funds?

David Dayen

Hedge funds make big returns by manipulating markets in ways that are illegal for small investors. Remind us: Why are they permitted?

Hedging Education

Justin Miller

How hedge funders spurred the pro-charter political network.

The Real Stakes in the Veepstakes

Paul Waldman

Here’s what the Democratic nominee—and all of us—should consider in thinking about the vice presidency.

School Closures: A Blunt Instrument

Rachel M. Cohen

Shuttering “failed schools” can have painful consequences for children and neighborhoods.

Special Report: Funding Government Fairly

Special Report: Funding Government Fairly

We’re Going to Need More Tax Revenue

Jared Bernstein

Special Report: Funding Government Fairly

How Plutocrats Cripple the IRS

Martin Lobel

You pay more because elites use their influence to pay less.

Special Report: Funding Government Fairly

International Tax Evasion and Avoidance

Reuven Avi-Yonah

Dangerous Bedfellows

Rena Steinzor

The stalemate on criminal justice reform.

Volkswagen’s Big Lie

Chris Iovenko

How VW’s decision to double down on a fossil-fuel technology led it into deceit and disaster.

Will Workers and Consumers Get Their Day in Court?

Katherine V.W. Stone

With a new high court majority, the era of mandatory arbitration could end.

Our Beleaguered Planet

Marcia Angell

The interaction of global climate change, poverty, affluence, and overpopulation.

The Great Diversion

Gabrielle Gurley

Charter schools may or may not improve student outcomes—but they divert funds from other public schools.

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The Politics of Terrorism Lead Desperate Hollande to Embrace Sarkozy

Karen Nussbaum

In an effort to marginalize his nation's large far-right party in the wake of attacks by Islamist radicals, the president of France teams up with an old foe.

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