Who needs one million square feet of office space in Boston’s Seaport District? Amazon might. The Boston Globe reported Thursday that real-estate industry executives “with knowledge of the talks” dished that Amazon is in the market for one, maybe two office buildings in the bustling and picturesque waterfront neighborhood. (The Boston Business Journal first reported […]
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 inEnergy and the Environment
Boston’s Rendezvous with Climate Destiny
A coastal winter storm shows one of America’s oldest cities what sea-level rise really means.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Black Alabamians Voted For Themselves
African American men and women turned out in historic numbers to quash the nostalgia for slavery, segregation, and disenfranchisement by terrorism when blacks kept their backs bent and eyes down.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Maine’s Medicaid Expansion Campaign Got to Yes
Frustration with the status quo and a powerful GOTV campaign helped produce the country’s first Medicaid expansion directly decreed by the voters.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Three Minutes with Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards
The women’s reproductive-rights leader shares some thoughts on President Trump and community activism.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Vietnam War: A Conversation with Ken Burns
America’s foremost documentary filmmakers lift the curtain on the country’s psychic wounds in this stunning new history of our most divisive conflict since the Civil War.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Will Harvey Dent Trump’s Climate Change Denial? (Probably Not)
Trump brings his un-presidential touch to the Southeast Texas disaster-in-progress
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump Sets His Sights on Phoenix
Nothing good can come from a presidential visit by a man determined to lead the country to the dark side after Charlottesville.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Trivial Pursuit of New Hampshire’s Opioid Crisis
A throwaway comment undercuts the president’s own drug addiction commission and spotlights his tone-deafness on combatting a national epidemic in one of the worst-hit states.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Justice Department Works for You, and Other Myths
At the annual NAACP convention, the contrast between the messaging from Rod Rosenstein, Jeff Sessions’s number two, and Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was stark.
