Republicans prioritize dealing with airline employees’ poor judgment with pets over young people dying from gun violence.
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 inLaw and Justice
Parkland Copycats Bide Their Time
Law enforcement officers thwarting school plots seize caches of weapons as the gun debate continues.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Q&A: What Cities Can Do About the Gun Epidemic
A conversation with former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter
Posted inAmerica and the World
Parading into a Cataclysm
President Trump loves the idea of a grand military parade—all the better to get Americans prepared for a major conflict that he seems eager to unleash.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Not a Drill: Oil and Gas Exploration Dead in the Water for Governors
With most coastal chief executives ready to battle to protect their seashores and fisheries, the Trump administration storms into the country’s first energy-environmental showdown.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Hudson River Tunnel Supporter Bites the Dust
Democrats do get excited over Republican retirements. As things stand now in New Jersey, full of people incensed by President Trump and recently departed GOP Governor Chris Christie, the 11th Congressional District, a longtime Republican stronghold, may turn blue in the fall. But for commuters and travelers wanting to get from New Jersey to New […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Infrastructure, Immigration, and Trump’s War on Cities
The president’s putative concern for America’s decaying infrastructure takes a back seat to his anti-immigrant demagoguery and anti-urban policies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Gateway To Nowhere on the Hudson
Donald Trump could well kill more funds for the construction of critical rail infrastructure projects—which doesn’t bode well for the Northeast.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Amazon, City Killer?
Amazon has whittled down the list of contenders for its second headquarters. Are those metropolitan areas ready for seismic socioeconomic upheaval?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
What Cities Can Learn from Houston Metro’s Hurricane Harvey Experience
The city’s bus and light rail network got through Harvey mostly unscathed because officials improvised—and learned lessons from previous storms.
