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Posted inBooks
Prophet of a Lost World
John Dunlop specialized in labor/management conflict resolution, but his deal making grew more perilous as corporate anti-unionism grew.
Posted inPolitics
Reaganland and the Rise of the New Right
Rick Perlstein joins Prospect executive editor David Dayen for a discussion about the rise of the conservative movement, as well as where it finds itself today.
Posted inBooks
Democracy: A Transformative Agenda
A conversation with legal scholar and policy expert Ganesh Sitaraman
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the ’60s
Harold Meyerson (a child of both L.A. and the ’60s) and Melina Abdullah (co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles) in conversation with Jon Wiener and Mike Davis on the 55th anniversary of the Watts uprising
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Pummeled the Constitution Long Before Trump
Whitman College political scientist Jack Jackson discusses his book ‘Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right’ and how authoritarianism seeped into the body politic.
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When Henry Wallace Warned of ‘American Fascism’
The progressive vice president to FDR is the subject of a new book by Nation correspondent John Nichols.
Posted inEconomic Policy
America: Still Going Wrong After All These Years
In an update of his best-seller on the decline and fall of the middle classes, James Steele explores the roots of the current economic crisis and possible pathways to the other side. A Prospect interview.
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Monopolies Are Why Salt and Water in a Bag Became a Scarce Item
An excerpt from a new book on life in the age of corporate power
