In 2023, minor league baseball players won a union contract and put an end to decades of exploitation.
Emma Janssen
Emma Janssen is a writing fellow at The American Prospect, where she reports on anti-poverty policy, health, and political power. Before joining the Prospect, she was at UChicago studying political philosophy, editing for The Chicago Maroon, and freelancing for the Hyde Park Herald.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Border Patrol’s Legacy of Violence
To understand the brutality in Minneapolis, look to the agency that has a history of fomenting it.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump’s War on Child Care
The already struggling system faces more struggles from administration rule changes.
Posted inEducation in America
The Student Loan Report the Trump Administration Didn’t Want Published
Read the CFPB report the Trump administration cut and scrubbed, which includes information on a higher-education surveillance pricing scheme.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Monetizing Regime Change
It is trivially easy for administration officials to use prediction markets to bet on the policies they authorize. We may have just seen it in Venezuela.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Bringing Stories From the Midwest
Writing fellow Emma Janssen looks back on her reporting this year.
Posted inPolitics
Chicago Story: Corruption and a Family Legacy Are on the Ballot
Jesse Jackson Jr.—convicted, unpardoned, and unrepentant—is running for Congress again.
Posted inPolitics
The Beautiful Game Is Getting Ugly
Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cup.’
Posted inEconomic Policy
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class
Posted inEconomic Policy
New York Gets Serious About Food Prices
State lawmakers could work with Zohran Mamdani’s administration to tackle high food prices through a combination of his public grocery proposal and a proposed antitrust law.