The president’s signature on an executive order could reignite the clashes between Native Americans and their supporters—and their historic adversaries.
Gabrielle Gurley
Gabrielle Gurley is an American Prospect senior editor. The award-winning journalist covers politics and policy in states and localities, with beats in economic development and infrastructure, elections, and climate. She is a 2026 Society of Professional Journalists/Washington D.C. Chapter Correspondent Award finalist for her coverage of District of Columbia politics and has earned past recognitions from the National Association of Black Journalists and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
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States Have Real Election Problems. Voter Fraud Isn’t One of Them.
State election officials want to see Washington help out with their real issues or get out of their polling booths.
Posted inEconomic Policy
It’s the Poverty, Stupid, Not Trump’s Imagined Carnage
While President Donald Trump continues his jeremiad against urban life, the nation’s mayors see poverty as their number one economic problem.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Q&A: The Congresswoman Who Won’t Be There
Massachusetts’s Katherine Clark explains why she won’t be in the inaugural stands today.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Elaine Chao Keeps Mum
The Transportation Department nominee declines to lift the curtain on the president-elect’s infrastructure revitalization vision.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Voter Suppression Works Too Well
The Republicans’ quest for a permanent political majority culminated in mammoth voter suppression in 2016. The 2018 midterm election promises both to embolden these efforts and energize resistance.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
The Art of the Infrastructure Deal
Donald Trump may want to see serious dollars invested in infrastructure, but can he wring trillions out of Mitch McConnell?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Romney Gambit
Mitt Romney’s willingness to consider serving in a Trump cabinet should come as no surprise.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Q&A: Straight Talk From Maine on Why Trump Won
A veteran Democratic state lawmaker breaks down how a large swath of a rural blue state went red.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump’s Own Blacks
Ben Carson as Secretary of Education? Farce becomes tragedy.