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Can Trump Succeed Where Reagan Failed?

Gabrielle Gurley

Jun 30, 2017

Determined to stamp out sanctuary cities, Trump and congressional Republicans plod on, but the anti-apartheid battles of the 1980s demonstrate that such movements are easily cowed by presidents.
Bridging the Mind-Body Gap in Health Care

Matt Leistra

Jun 30, 2017

Medical professionals redouble their efforts on tearing down the walls between treating mental and physical illnesses.
How to End Our Dysfunctional Congressional Election System

Parker Richards

Jun 30, 2017
Voting Fights in the States

Miles Rapoport

Jun 30, 2017

Less suppression than feared; some surprising progress
Trump’s Travel Ban Is Back

Manuel Madrid

Jun 29, 2017

After months of confusion, refugee resettlement agencies brace themselves for the limited travel ban.
New Mine Fuels Trump’s Coal Crusade, But Global Energy Markets May Have the Final Say

Ishmael Bishop

Jun 29, 2017
The Limits of Lying and Cheating

Eliza Newlin Carney

Jun 29, 2017

A federal judge’s decision to fine voter-restriction advocate Kris Kobach reminds us that the courts can be a potent ally in protecting voters’ rights.
Has American Airlines Abandoned Its Promise to Airport Workers?

Justin Miller

Jun 29, 2017

Amid the threat of a high-profile strike one year ago, the airline vowed to clear the path for its contractors’ low-wage employees to unionize. Now, the workers’ union says the company is backtracking.

Summer 2017

Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion

Justin Miller

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.
Summer 2017

Settlements: The Real Story

Gershom Gorenberg

Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics.
Summer 2017

Place Matters

Harold Meyerson

As in the 1930s, progressives need economic development strategies for the left-behind regions of the country.
Summer 2017

Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful

William E. Spriggs

It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class.

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House GOP Votes to Deregulate Wall Street and Gut Consumer Protections

Justin Miller

Jun 8, 2017

Just the latest example of trickle-down ideologues trying to wipe away the hard lessons learned from the Great Recession.
In Russiagate, Keep Your Eye on Pence

Adele M. Stan

May 17, 2017

If Democrats are smart, they’ll explore the vice president’s role during the transition.
The Simple Case Against Trump

Eliza Newlin Carney

Jun 8, 2017

Regardless of what special counsel and congressional investigations turn up, the Russia scandal already points to patent campaign-finance violations.
The Racism Obstacle

Joan Walsh

Jun 1, 2017

There are limits to how effectively a progressive populist economics can woo working-class whites.
How Jeff Sessions Is Laying the Groundwork for Authoritarian Action

Adele M. Stan

Apr 12, 2017

The attorney general is courting law enforcement by reducing accountability and renewing a war on people of color.
No Factions in Foxholes

E.J. Graff

Apr 5, 2017

Confronted by the crisis that is the Trump presidency, American progressives have overcome identity politics’ barriers and joined up in mutual defense.

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Vol. 3 No. 28

Summer 2017
Columns

The European Mirror

Robert Kuttner

Notebook

Settlements: The Real Story

Gershom Gorenberg

Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics.

Silk Roadblock

Manuel Madrid

Yo-Yo Ma's celebrated project for global understanding through music runs into Donald Trump's sour note.

Ignoring Police Violence

Brentin Mock

Baltimore officials accepted a voluntary settlement to reduce police abuses. Jeff Sessions wants to kill it.

Culture

State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice

Randall Kennedy

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

James Parrott

How New York’s budget crisis was used to roll back expansive government

The Long Arc of Protest

David Karpf

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

Zephyr Teachout

Can our constitution co-exist with extremes of economic inequality?

Gift Horse or Trojan Horse?

Benjamin Soskis

The mixed record of America’s new rich as often self-interested philanthropists
Features

The Wages of Neglect

The Wages of Neglect

Place Matters

Harold Meyerson

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’

Stanley Greenberg

It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base.

The Wages of Neglect

The Pittsburgh Conundrum

John Russo

Can you have a model city in a left-behind region?

The Wages of Neglect

A Tale of Two Populisms

Guy Molyneux

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

Robert Griffin, John Halpin, & Ruy Teixeira

And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers.

The Wages of Neglect

Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful

William E. Spriggs

It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class.

The Wages of Neglect

Tilting at Windmills

Joan Fitzgerald

Why the green jobs promise is still unfulfilled

Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion

Justin Miller

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

Chuck Collins

Veterans of the Contract Buyers League hit the doors again.

Who Is Wilbur Ross?

Rosemary Batt & Eileen Appelbaum

From bankruptcy king to Trump’s king of commerce

The Great Los Angeles Revolt Against Cars

David Dayen

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

Gabrielle Gurley

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.

Will Trump Kill the CFPB?

Lisa J. Servon

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.

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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.

❱ Follow Up

Labor at a Crossroads: Can Broadened Civil Rights Law Offer Workers a True Right to Organize?

Karen Nussbaum

It's one way to allow victims of anti-union discrimination to sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages.

How Harvard's Sexual Assault Policy Imperils Feminist Quest for Justice

Karen Nussbaum

Can we reconcile the belated attention to rape on campus with due process?

Labor at a Crossroads: Can Broadened Civil Rights Law Offer Workers a True Right to Organize?

Karen Nussbaum

It's one way to allow victims of anti-union discrimination to sue in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages.

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Republicans Resort to the Same Strategy They Always Use on Health Care: Lying

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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.

Articles By: The Editors; Stephen Franklin; Ruy Teixeira, John Halpin and Robert Griffin; Guy Molyneux; Stan Greenberg; Celinda Lake, Daniel Gotoff, and Olivia Myszkowski; Matt Morrison; Andrew Levison; Harold Meyerson; Joan Walsh; Ed Kilgore; Tom Zoellner; and Justin Gest.

Trickle Downers

The Prospect's ongoing exposé of the folly, dysfunctions, and sheer idiocy of feed-the-rich economic policies.

Kansas, Sam Brownback, and the Trickle-Down Implosion

Justin Miller

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.