In the accountability-free zone in the Capitol, nobody has managed to challenge those responsible for the disappointing electoral result.
Agenda 2020
Posted inDay One Agenda
The True Cost of Carbon
The Biden administration can show its seriousness in the fight against climate change by laying out the high cost of continuing to burn the planet.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Biden Cabinet Hopefuls’ Unusual Lease: Break in Case of Appointment
The next president’s foreign-policy team was confident they’d be back in the White House.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden’s First Appointees Are a Mixed Bag
The transition’s agency review teams look good for financial regulation; they look bad for the agency that controls practically all regulations.
Posted inDay One Agenda
⏩ David Dayen Discusses the Day One Agenda on The Majority Report
Watch Prospect executive editor David Dayen discuss the Day One Agenda on The Majority Report With Sam Seder.
Posted inEconomic Policy
The One Niche Election Victory That Most Delights Me
San Francisco voters opted to raise taxes on companies whose CEOs make a gazillion times what their workers do.
Posted inDay One Agenda
The Day One Agenda: Now More Than Ever
The election result brings new prominence to executive actions. But in reality, it was always going to be a necessary facet of a Democratic presidency.
Posted inTAP
Can Biden Govern With a Republican Senate?
Today on TAP: The making of an even more centrist Biden
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Return to Mother Emanuel
The site of the 2015 hate crime that killed nine parishioners was in many ways a preview for an ugly era in race relations and politics.
Posted inWorking in America
Workers Rally Against Trump’s Broken Promises
At shuttered plants across America, workers have been activated to speak the truth about the hollowness of the past four years.