Mass Incarceration and the Achievement Gap
The impact of imprisoned parents on children shows how criminal justice policy is education policy.
In Search of Obama
Jonathan Chait lays out a case for Obama as a transformative president.
How the Religious Right Led to Trump
Two new books on America’s religious history provide key insights into the currents that produced one of the country’s least religious and least biblically literate presidents.
The War on Facts Hits Prescription Drug Regulation
The FDA’s authority was under legal attack even before Trump. Now the agency faces a triple threat.
The Instantaneous Injustice of Bail
For Chicago’s poor, who can’t afford attorneys, bail hearings often don’t last longer than a few seconds—and may keep them in jail for want of a few hundred dollars.
There’s a Logic to Trump’s War On the Media
Trump goes after the news media not because he thinks they’re strong, but because he thinks they’re weak and he can diminish them further.
Why Are Men Dropping Out of Work?
A new book highlights the decline of male employment.
The Incoming Privatization Assault
Get ready for everything from private infrastructure and private prisons to voucherized schools and Medicaid.
Saving the Planet Goes Local
The Trump administration plans to decimate environmental safeguards—so blue states and cities are stepping up their efforts to arrest climate change.
Fighting Child Poverty With a Universal Child Allowance
Expanding a strategy on which liberals and conservatives can agree
The War on Regulation
Under Trump, it’s open season on health, safety, labor, financial, and environmental measures—that protect people who voted for him.
Trumping State Regulators and Juries
The right backs states’ rights when that’s convenient—but uses federal preemption to overrule blue state policies.
Citizen Activism and the Courts
The surprising impact of popular movements on judicial doctrines
Corporate America and Donald Trump
Don’t mistake the corporate embrace of diversity for defense of democracy.
No Factions in Foxholes
Confronted by the crisis that is the Trump presidency, American progressives have overcome identity politics’ barriers and joined up in mutual defense.
The Anti-Trump Movement: Recover, Resist, Reform
The profusion of citizen organizing as defense—and offense
Can the Democratic Party Be White Working Class, Too?
While Hillary Clinton was losing Montana by more than 23 points, Steve Bullock was elected governor running as a progressive Democrat. What can the rest of us learn from Montana?
How California Hopes to Undo Trump
America’s mega-state is now clearly its leftmost, too—and on social insurance, climate change, and immigrant rights, it has more capacity and desire to defeat Republican reaction than any other institution.
The Hidden Monopolies That Raise Drug Prices
How pharmacy benefit managers morphed from processors to predators
Will Suburban Activism Pave the Democratic Path to the House?
If they’re to retake Congress in 2018, Democrats need their newfound activist hordes to focus on health coverage—and diverse, upscale swing districts.
A True Republican Health-Care Unraveling
The reaction against the GOP could boost progressive organizing and bolder reforms.
The Hour of the Attorneys General
State Democratic AGs have assumed new importance in the effort to contain the Trump presidency.
Driverless Future?
If they ever get the bugs out, autonomous cars will put a lot of human drivers out of work.
Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid
Republican claims of their bill’s great flexibility for the states are a sham cover for disabling cuts.
