The Prospect’s executive editor highlights his favorite stories of the year.
David Dayen
David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud. He co-hosts the podcast Organized Money with Matt Stoller.
He can be reached on Signal at ddayen.90.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Conservative Judiciary’s Fatal Attraction to Deregulation
A Neil Gorsuch ruling in 2016 has led to a marked increase in serious injuries to children from ingesting magnets.
Posted inPolitics
The Media’s Given Wall Street a Free Pass in the 2020 Primary
Despite a more treacherous financial system than four years ago, the media has made financial regulatory policy all but invisible in the Democratic race.
Posted inPolitics
Why Ady Barkan Thinks Warren’s Health Care Plan Is the Best in the 2020 Field
The Medicare for All activist, a Warren endorser, discussed the plan before Thursday’s presidential debate.
Posted inPolitics
Democratic Cave to Trump on Border Wall Had an Ulterior Motive
Democrats gave Trump major concessions and leverage in the year-end funding bill so Representative Henry Cuellar could get federal funding for a riverwalk in his district.
Posted inImpeachment
The Strangely Inert Impeachment Drama
A note on why impeachment feels more like a performance than a historic moment
Posted inPolitics
Another Lump of Coal From Congress
The government funding bill, assembled amid the distractions of the holidays, again prioritizes corporate handouts.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Make Progress on All Fronts: A Response to Jacobin
A Jacobin writer attacks the Day One Agenda. Here’s our rebuttal.
Posted inPolitics
Under Cover of Impeachment, Pelosi Wraps Up a Year’s Policymaking in 24 Hours
While nobody was looking, the House Speaker resolved major end-of-the-year policy deals. Here’s the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Posted inPolitics
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Team Up With House Progressives to Challenge Nancy Pelosi on Drug Bill
The Progressive Caucus is threatening to vote down a drug pricing bill important to Nancy Pelosi. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have backed them up.
