With the ouster of Leon Wieseltier for a long, sordid history of hitting on young women who worked in junior positions at The New Republic where he was literary editor for three decades, the women’s movement has achieved a goal that has eluded it for centuries. Powerful men, famous or not, are no longer exempt […]
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Transgender Protections Rollback by Sessions Draws Scrutiny
While Americans focused on the tragedies unfolding in Las Vegas and Puerto Rico, Attorney General Jeff Sessions quietly rescinded a memorandum that protected transgender people from workplace discrimination. Eric Holder, President Obama’ first attorney general, had issued the memo in December 2014, extending the Civil Rights Act’s Title VII protections against employment discrimination to transgender […]
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The GOP Is Now the White Nationalist Party, and That Isn’t Changing Anytime Soon
Collective denial over the depth of America’s racism amounts to a passive form of racism in and of itself.
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Latino Voting Rights Groups Gear Up for 2018
Encouraged by Donald Trump’s poor approval ratings and an unproductive Congress, Democrats believe that they can make up some ground in the 2018 midterms. But if the party wants to make waves, they will need to get Latinos, one of their key voting blocs, to the polls. Nearly 70 percent of Latinos voted for Clinton […]
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Event: On the Global Crisis of Democracy
On October 5 and 6, the Albert Shanker Institute is hosting a conference, co-sponsored by the Prospect and other progressive publications and organizations, on the global crisis of democracy. Intellectuals and activists from the United States, China, South Africa, Germany, Israel, Hungary, and Austria will discuss the rise of the nationalist-populist right, the growth of […]
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Protect the Dreamers
Congress should pass a clean Dream Act that gives young DACA recipients a path to citizenship and take other steps to improve the lives of immigrants and bolster communities and the economy.
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Q&A: The First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Historian Marcus Rediker talks about the hitherto unknown Benjamin Lay.
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Voter Registration Is the Real Resistance
The 2018 midterms will hinge on whether Democrats can register and turn out single women, millennials, and minorities.
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Harvey Is Not a Natural Disaster
Much of Harvey’s devastation could have been avoided with an eye to how communities grow in hurricane-prone areas—and how they respond to the overwhelming needs of their most disadvantaged residents.
