Robert Kuttner has been unmasking the fallacies of neoliberalism for decades. The following are a few excerpts: The time is overdue to reclaim liberalism, without prefixes, qualifiers, or apologies. My neoliberal friends are right to ask hard questions and to search for creative new approaches. We can certainly debate which strategies make most sense. But […]
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Credit Facts and Fallacies
The following information was culled from an interview with Ricki Lowitz, a former fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., and executive director of Working Credit, a nonprofit organization that offers credit-building education and counseling in seven states. FALLACY: Medical collections don’t hurt your credit score as other collections do. FACT: While this is […]
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Debate: Making American Democracy Representative
Two knowledgeable commentators respond to Benjamin Page & Martin Gilens’s argument in the Prospect for ranked-choice voting, proportional representation, and the abolition of primaries.
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Event: On the Global Crisis of Democracy
On October 5 and 6, the Albert Shanker Institute is hosting a conference, co-sponsored by the Prospect and other progressive publications and organizations, on the global crisis of democracy. Intellectuals and activists from the United States, China, South Africa, Germany, Israel, Hungary, and Austria will discuss the rise of the nationalist-populist right, the growth of […]
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What States and Cities Can Do To Fight Climate Change
Today, the Prospect is posting Ben Adler’s long-form piece, which also appears in the spring issue of our print magazine, on how states and cities are moving ahead on policies that limit climate change, and what they’re doing to counter the Trump administration’s policies that will make climate change even more severe. As Ben points […]
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A Close Look at Education Reform in Washington, D.C.
Today, The American Prospect published a feature story by Rachel Cohen on D.C. school reform. The District of Columbia has been cast as one of the nation’s most successful examples of education reform. Over the last decade, the city has significantly expanded charter schooling and implemented a new teacher evaluation system based in part on […]
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Best of the Prospect 2016
After a year that left progressives reeling, The American Prospect looks back at our most important stories of 2016.
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The American Prospect Appoints New Publisher
Magazine strengthens resources
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Andy Grove on Trade, Globalization, and Defending America’s Economy
Remembering the high-tech visionary, and looking back on his prescient words on globalization.