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Third Way Is Copying the Left’s Homework
No one else has any ideas worth pointlessly compromising.
Military Lawyers Prosecuting Civilian Crimes Across the Country
In a move with little precedent, Judge Advocates (JAGs) are showing up in local courtrooms to prosecute street crime.
A Casualty of a Cruel Immigration Policy
Pierre Damas Bel, 20, died by suicide after being fitted with a tracking device by ICE. ‘That ankle monitor is what killed him,’ a family friend said.
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Organized Money: How Trump Lost Cattle Ranchers
The business of raising and processing beef in America has been ground to dust in service of profit for publicly traded behemoths like Walmart.
Organized Money: An Existential Threat to Neighborhood Restaurants
Sysco proposes acquisition to halve independent restaurants and double double your burger’s price.
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These Are Our Prospect Patriots
In the nation’s 250th year, we turn an eye to Americans who challenged power, took risks, and made our country greater.
Ferdinand Pecora: The Greatest Senate Investigator Ever
How Sicilian immigrant Ferdinand Pecora upended the rule of the bankers and ushered in FDR’s radical reforms of capitalism
Ida Tarbell: The Journalist Who Took Down Rockefeller
Not even Teddy Roosevelt could break up his corrupt oil monopoly—until a daughter of the Pennsylvania oil fields came along.
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Another Monopoly Allowed to Stand
Google avoids accountability again, this time in advertising tech. Why do judges bother to find companies guilty of running a monopoly if they’re unwilling to break them up?
The Lawless Fed
The central bank specializes in not following laws meant to restrain Wall Street.
Are Centrist Democrats Too Racist to Compete in Michigan?
Vote blue no matter who? Not if you’re too brown!
A Fitting End to a Big-Money Primary Season
Two establishment candidates are playing with nearly $10 million in campaign cash, using it mainly to attack one another while progressives look on haplessly.
Trump’s War on Fair Housing
The nonprofits that enforce anti-discrimination laws are being cut off from the federal funding that makes their work possible.
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