The Group Behind Prop 8
Ultraconservative legal organization the Alliance Defense Fund is backing a California marriage ban with rhetoric about “defending” family and children.
2008: Five Races to Watch
The Prospect rounds up five of the most interesting and unusual campaigns across the country — from a blind rabbi in New Jersey to an incumbent governor described as “Dick Cheney’s Dick Cheney.”
Race, Place, and Opportunity
Where we live influences our life chances. Too many blacks still live in concentrated poverty.
Unionization and Black Workers
Trade unions are still a key path to higher-quality jobs and greater dignity at the workplace.
Regular Work in an Irregular Economy
Ending the temp agencies’ control of low-wage labor markets
African Americans and Immigrants: The Common Good
Are foreigners “taking Americans’ jobs”? Or are employers once again exploiting cheap labor and vulnerable people?
Women of Color
The persistent double jeopardy of race and gender
Black Women: The Unfinished Agenda
African American women made great progress in education and entering into previously forbidden occupations — but their gains in earnings mysteriously stopped.
Sub-Prime as a Black Catastrophe
First came racial redlining. Then came racial targeting of toxic and predatory loans. Both spelled economic disaster for African Americans.
Understanding the Black-White Earnings Gap
Why do African Americans continue to earn less despite dramatic gains in education?
The Way to the New World
David Roberts reviews three new books on our environmental crisis, and wonders why newly minted greens sound more ambitious about the future than movement insiders.
The Economic Crisis in Black and White
Narrowing America’s racial divides and expanding opportunity for all
Audacity in Harlem
Geoffrey Canada founded the Harlem Children’s Zone as a “conveyor belt” to transport poor kids from birth to college, by dealing with every need. Can its successes be replicated?
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
From our October print issue: Thomas Frank sees Republican scandal and conservative ideology as one and the same. But a more honorable right wing is imaginable.
From Pop Charts to Politics
Hip-hop is now a powerful mainstream cultural force, but political activists haven’t quite figured out how to mobilize the hip-hop generation.
It’s the Green Economy, Stupid
Populism is the theme of the year for Democratic candidates. Oil companies are the problem and green energy is the solution.
Five Questions About the New Electorate
For a decade or more, we’ve been promised an electoral transformation: Younger voters, minorities, and women will prevail over the older, conservative majority. Is this the year the predictions come true?
What to Expect When You’re Expecting a Majority
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is poised for a rare achievement: a second consecutive cycle of sizable gains. But with more Democrats may come more conflict.
Meet the Next Treasury Secretary
The most difficult economic challenge of the next administration will be to overhaul America’s collapsing financial system. Who will lead that effort?
Back to School, Back to Court
There is no longer either a moral or constitutional basis for rigging the school system for the well-to-do.
Taking the Initiative
Ballot initiatives are just another weapon in the public-policy wars. Progressives shouldn’t fear them.
We’re All Chicagoans Now
From our October print issue: For those of us who have been skeptical of choice as a principle for government programs, it’s time to stop fighting.
The American Collision
A presidential race between Obama and McCain was supposed to bring a less-polarized politics, so why hasn’t it worked out that way?
