Reliable wireless networks? Safe air travel? Why not both?
Gabrielle Gurley
Gabrielle Gurley is a senior editor at The American Prospect. She covers states and cities, focusing on economic development and infrastructure, elections, and climate. She wins awards, too, most recently picking up a 2024 NABJ award for coverage of Baltimore and a 2021 Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication urban journalism award for her feature story on the pandemic public transit crisis.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Remote Workers Punch Holes in City Revenues
Cities hard hit by the pandemic economic slowdown maneuver to keep local income taxes flowing.
Posted inPolitics
The Critical Power of State Legislatures
A Q&A with David Toscano, the former Democratic leader of the Virginia House of Delegates, on nullification, federalism, voting rights, Glenn Youngkin, and more
Posted inPolitics
Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural Incompetence
With a generous helping of COVID-19. This is Senior Editor Gabrielle Gurley’s Best of 2021.
Posted inPolitics
Fight Omicron or Rant About Miracles
Trashing President Biden’s pandemic stewardship is inexplicable in the extreme.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Abortion and the Beginning of the End of the Right to Privacy
A Q&A with Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on how Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization sets the stage for more restrictive policies.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Ahmaud Arbery and the Legacy of White Fear
A jury rendered justice in the Georgia case. What happens the next time?
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Job Gets a Foreman
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is Biden’s pick to make sure the project rolls out as intended.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The COP26 Parting Shot? Wait Until Next Year.
Equipped with alarming new reports and data on the accelerating climate crisis, the conference punted decisive action into 2022.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Nuclear Cop-Out in Glasgow
If the international community can’t make headway on nuclear energy goals at COP26, when, if ever, is it going to happen?
