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States and local police departments can overcome Congress’s failure to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.

Senate Races 2014 – Part 2 Here is the second part of our preliminary discussion of the 2014 Senate races. The previous one dealt with the Democratic-held seats. This one looks at the Republican-held seats. Click here for full story

Any strategy going forward must lead to the next set of big ideas about how to reinvent America in order to thrive in our 21st-century world. How do we transform our economy? Our society? How do we govern ourselves, given the new realities of the world around us? How do we operate when everything is […]

This piece is part of the Prospect’s series on progressives’ strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. Progressives were not at all ready to fight the battles we needed to fight during President Barack Obama’s first term in the state and local arenas. That’s why my colleagues and I are […]

This piece is part of the Prospect’s series on progressives’ strategy over the next 40 years. To read the introduction, click here. Whatever the issue that progressive organizers are working on, we can find common cause in the need to rein in corporate power and restore governments’ ability to advance the common good. The success […]

Recently, I read a story in The New York Times about Greenland and haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. As rising global temperatures melt the vast ice sheet that has long guarded the northern Arctic, fossil-fuel companies are rushing to extract newly available resources. Greenlanders, according to the report, are […]