Seven states passed constitutional amendments protecting abortion this year, but the backlash from anti-abortion forces has only just begun.
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 inTransportation
Un-Pausing New York’s Congestion Pricing Pause
Whether the city has a functioning public transportation system may rest with Washington, or better yet, New Jersey.
Posted inPolitics
There Are Reasons for African American Voter Apathy
Community disinvestment, lack of economic opportunity, and rampant misinformation were a few of the chronic ills that kept Black Philadelphians from the polls.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Washington State Keeps Its Cap-and-Invest Climate Plan
Evergreen State voters decide that the billions in revenues generated by the Climate Commitment Act are worth preserving.
Posted inPolitics
A Union Gets Back to Door-Knocking in Pennsylvania and Beyond
In the wake of the 2022 midterms, UNITE HERE learned it needed to focus on more down-ballot races, too.
Posted inPolitics
In Philadelphia, It’s Kamala vs. the Couch
Among Black voters, Trump can’t beat her, but a key challenge is rallying voters who’d rather stay home.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Washington Tests Its Climate Ambitions
A ballot initiative funded by a millionaire transplant threatens the success of the state’s signature cap-and-invest program.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Falling Into Climate Disaster
Red and blue states look past each other on issues like carbon emissions, power generation.
Posted inPolitics
The Politics of Milton
After another major hurricane slams Florida, voting is not on the average voter’s radar.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Q&A: FEMA Isn’t Coming for the Generators
Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate talks about the agency’s budget and what the agency does and doesn’t do.
