Rethinking the American dream in cities and suburbs
inequality
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 inPolitics
How the Education Gap Is Crippling the Left
Increasingly, Democrats rely on highly educated voters to make up their base. That sits uncomfortably with the party’s historical role of uplifting all workers.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Universal Broadband, Now More Than Ever
Like electricity, broadband is an essential utility that everyone should have access to.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: The Bid to Pierce the Bubble Economy
One organizer is using direct action to confront the runaway inequality of the pandemic. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for September 11, 2020.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Charting the Legacy of John Lewis
The Atlantic’s Adam Harris ponders the legacy of Congressman John Lewis, the Big Six civil rights leaders, and forging ahead with a new civil rights movement.
Posted inCoronavirus
Back to School
Universities that lived by the market model during the boom years face an extinction event as the bubble bursts and their business model pushes them to make perverse decisions about campus opening.
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.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
‘Impunity Is the Story of Our Times’
An interview with filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer