In her speech last night, the Massachusetts Senate candidate drove home the point that she’s been making since her campaign started: We build it together.
Monica Potts
Monica Potts is a former senior writer at The American Prospect. She is working on a book about low-income women in her rural Arkansas hometown. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York, Vogue.com, The Daily Beast, The Trace, and Democracy.
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The Political Education of Elizabeth Warren
Supporters of the Massachusetts Dem thought she had a lock on Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat. But the campaign has proved that’s far from true.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Five Things Government Does Better Than You Do
We know a lot less about how to manage money than we think.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Farm Bill on Life Support as Drought Worsens
This month, the House agriculture committee finished its work on the farm bill-a massive piece of legislation that sets policy on everything from government subsidies to food stamps. Even though the Senate had passed its version of the farm bill, which must be reauthorized every five years, no one expected House Majority Leader John Boehner […]
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Will Lobby for Food
The farm bill is set to expire, which is bad news for anyone who eats.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Pressing On the Upward Way
A profile of life in one of the country’s poorest counties
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The SBA List’s “Free Speech” Battle
The anti-abortion organization has its computers seized.
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Susan B. Anthony’s Hit List
How a group founded by anti-abortion feminists became a powerful foe of Democratic women.
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What It Feels Like to Be Poor
Katherine Boo chronicles the intimate realities of poverty in an Indian slum.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Crash Diet
Obama still has time to redeem his food-production policy.