The 76ers, the city’s basketball team, has the studies and the mayor lined up for a new arena. Residents and allies believe their homes and culture are more valuable.
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
NOAA’s Crossfire Hurricane
Project 2025 shows that Republicans can’t take heat—so they’d try to blow up the kitchen if they get the chance.
Posted inTransportation
What Is the Fare Evasion Equation?
New York asks that question after officers shoot and wound an alleged fare evader.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Nebraska’s Single-Subject Imperative on Abortion
A state supreme court decision could boil down to an all-or-nothing gambit.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Direct-Democracy Backsliding Claims Another Victim
A paperwork snafu kicked an abortion rights measure off the ballot in Arkansas. Organizers can try again in 2026.
Posted inPolitics
Kamala Harris, Hope, and the Third Reconstruction
African Americans know in their bones that there’s nothing new about the perils ahead.
Posted inPolitics
Josh Shapiro Mans the Electoral Fort in Pennsylvania
Can the former vice-presidential contender hold off Republican attempts to undermine voting in the Keystone State?
Posted inPolitics
This Election, the Intelligence Could Be Artificial
With Congress slow-rolling AI regulations, voters need to verify before sharing.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Neighborhoods Play Hardball
For decades, wealthy owners and financiers have gotten cities to pay for their sports stadiums. It’s not so easy anymore.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Arkansas Secretary of State Rejects Abortion Amendment Petitions
Surprising grassroots signature-gathering effort thrown into turmoil with no apparent path forward to November.
