Alexandra Gutierrez

On Wednesday, Rory Reid, son of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid launched his Nevada campaign for governor. Yesterday, Beau Biden said that he was “absolutely” considering running for the Senate seat formerly held by his father. Add that to the likes of Rand Paul, Robin Carnahan and Ethan Hastert — and you’ve got multiple family […]

Terence Samuel on the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races: Current political weather reports forecast gloom and doom for Democrats come election time. The predictions are of severe changes in the climate from the triumphs of 2006 and 2008, when they took control of the Congress and won back the White House, to something considerably […]

Yesterday, President Obama signed the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) conceived a decade ago under Clinton. The executive order aims to improve evidence-based research on the historically underserved AAPI community and increase their participation across all federal agencies. The Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and other AAPI advocacy groups see […]

Hillary Clinton departed Moscow yesterday afternoon, after a two-day visit in which she and Obama adviser Michael McFaul met with officials and private citizens — and they leave behind an array of questions about the “reset” in the U.S.-Russia relations. Their approach to democracy and human rights left something to be desired. McFaul inadvertently made […]

After much chatter about a USAID appoinment or an ambassadorship to Israel, it’s been confirmed that Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida intends to announce his resignation later this morning. He’ll be moving on to head the Center for Middle Eastern Peace and Economic Cooperation. Laura Rozen suggests that Wexler’s reasons for leaving Congress are pragmatic […]

In our April issue, Lauren Foster highlighted some of the ways the economic crisis is hurting nonprofits. While the focus was specifically on philanthropies, her piece hit a little bit close to home. As a nonprofit, the Prospect is vulnerable to the economy’s vicissitudes and partially reliant on the generosity of — hey, PBS — […]

Back in August, The New York Times published a pretty damning feature on the harmful effects of atrazine: Even in “safe” quantities, the presence of the weed killer in drinking water could cause birth defects, menstrual problems, and cancer, according to recent studies. The idea that the thing we need most to live is killing […]

The past few months have been none too kind to the issue of immigration. Any lingering hopes that the White House would prioritize comprehensive reform this year were dashed when Obama stated that he didn’t anticipate a bill passing before 2010. Repair of the country’s broken detention system got that much more complicated with the […]

Courtney Martin says that top commanders of the U.S. Army need to start listening to the opinions of the rank and file: As the debate over the best course of action to take in Afghanistan heightened last week, I was in a unique setting to consider the implications. As part of a workshop on media […]

Sgt. First Class Jared C. Monti was awarded the Medal of Honor on Thursday for his heroism in Afghanistan: He died three years ago, on June 21, 2006, while trying to save one of his soldiers during a gunfire near the Pakistan border. “They remind us all that the price of freedom is great,” President […]