Donald Trump Is No Friend of a Better NAFTA
We do need to repair or replace what’s wrong with the mother of bad trade deals. But don’t be fooled by Trump’s posturing.Â
No Big-Game Hunting at Justice
How federal prosecutors let major white-collar criminals off the hook and stick shareholders with the costs of corporate crime
The Full Employment Solution
Truly fixing the American economy requires full employment, as Franklin Roosevelt proposed 74 years ago. And that can’t be done through the private sector alone.
The Congressional Review Act: A Damage Assessment
How Trump’s Republicans have used an obscure Gingrich-era law to eviscerate health, safety, labor, environmental, and financial protections
Up Against Big Tech
The old challenges of concentrated economic and political power now confront us in new forms.
The Poverty on Disney’s Doorstep
TAP Goes to the Oscars: The Florida Project is a film about life as a poor kid. It doesn’t erase the innocence of childhood—or the harshness of poverty.
The Two Sides of Immigration Policy
We need to legalize the undocumented already here, but open borders will mean lower wages for American workers.
A Fabulous Failure: Clinton’s 1990s and the Origins of Our Times
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Hillary Clinton’s loss of the industrial Midwest to Donald Trump sealed her fate on Election Day 2016. This defeat, both narrow and catastrophic, had many architects, but one of the most consequential occupied the White House nearly 25 years before,…
The Battle of the Georgetown Mill
To black workers in this picturesque South Carolina town, the unionized steel mill anchors their community. To the town’s white civic leaders, it blocks Georgetown’s gentrification. For the past two years, they’ve been fighting it out.
Gateway To Nowhere on the Hudson
Donald Trump could well kill more funds for the construction of critical rail infrastructure projects—which doesn’t bode well for the Northeast.
Redemption for Offenders and Victims
A new variation on an age-old tradition helps criminal defendants redeem their lives, far more effectively than prison does.
Buying Into Medicaid: A Viable Path for Universal Coverage
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. With the failure (so far) of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, emboldened Democrats are releasing proposals and…
Health-Care Reform’s Disability Blind Spot
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. Imagine that you attend a country music concert or a quiet Texas church service, or are simply stopped at a local red…
The Democrats: Exorcizing Ghosts and Looking Forward
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The Democrats’ stunning success in the November 7, 2017, Virginia state elections, and more recently, Democrat Doug Jones’s election in Alabama, portends a great blue wave in 2018. Or does it? The good news is that dozens of new groups…
The Other Imperiled Immigrants
For no good reason, other than spite and symbolism, Trump goes after Central American immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.
Capping Provider Payment: An Alternative to a Public Option
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. Before the Trump administration adopted policies undermining the Affordable Care Act, the ACA’s marketplaces were working well where there was competition, but…
A New Strategy for Health Care
Looking beyond Trump, Democrats ought to focus on opening Medicare to people at age 50 and capping excessive health-care prices.
The Road to Medicare for Everyone
Here’s how we get past the political obstacles that have kept America from making affordable health care a right.
The Next Big Thing in Health Reform: Where to Start?
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. The next Democratic candidate for president or Democratic Congress will likely embrace some sort of public plan as part of the “next…
The New Reformer DAs
As cities grow more progressive, a new breed of prosecutors are winning office and upending the era of lock-’em-up justice. They may hold the key to resisting Trump’s mania for mass incarceration.
Is Manufacturing’s Future All Used Up?
Though the efforts to revive our much shrunken industrial sector may seem quixotic, manufacturing still matters to the nation’s economy—and its psyche.
The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus
Foes of hateful speech should remember how free expression was protected on campus in the first place—through the civil rights movement.
Saving the Free Press From Private Equity
Navigating the digital transition is a huge challenge for newspapers. Absentee ownership by private equity predators makes it all but impossible.
Big Tech: The New Predatory Capitalism
The tech giants are menacing democracy, privacy, and competition. Can they be housebroken?
