The old challenges of concentrated economic and political power now confront us in new forms.
Health and Social Policy
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The Poverty on Disney’s Doorstep
TAP Goes to the Oscars: The Florida Project is a film about life as a poor kid. It doesn’t erase the innocence of childhood—or the harshness of poverty.
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The Two Sides of Immigration Policy
We need to legalize the undocumented already here, but open borders will mean lower wages for American workers.
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A Fabulous Failure: Clinton’s 1990s and the Origins of Our Times
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Hillary Clinton’s loss of the industrial Midwest to Donald Trump sealed her fate on Election Day 2016. This defeat, both narrow and catastrophic, had many architects, but one of the most consequential occupied the White House nearly 25 years before, […]
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Q&A: America’s Marijuana Moments
Historian Emily Dufton discusses the prospects of a Sessions-led backlash to legal weed.
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The Battle of the Georgetown Mill
To black workers in this picturesque South Carolina town, the unionized steel mill anchors their community. To the town’s white civic leaders, it blocks Georgetown’s gentrification. For the past two years, they’ve been fighting it out.
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Abusing Drugs
How CVS uses its market power to destroy competing independent pharmacies.
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Gateway To Nowhere on the Hudson
Donald Trump could well kill more funds for the construction of critical rail infrastructure projects—which doesn’t bode well for the Northeast.
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Redemption for Offenders and Victims
A new variation on an age-old tradition helps criminal defendants redeem their lives, far more effectively than prison does.
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Buying Into Medicaid: A Viable Path for Universal Coverage
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. With the failure (so far) of Republican efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, emboldened Democrats are releasing proposals and […]
