Can this star product of South L.A.’s social justice ferment end up as Joe Biden’s improbable veep?
Joe Biden
Posted inPolitics
The Trouble With Biden’s Big Tent
It papers over some irreconcilable differences of policy and principle. Sooner or later, Biden will have to choose which side he’s on.
Posted inHousing
The Low-Wage Mothers of Color Who Want to Become Suburban Moms
Trump favors the exclusionary zoning that keeps America segregated and economically ossified. Biden opposes it.
Posted inPolitics
An Open Letter to Joe Biden
Two descendants of the architects of the New Deal ask the potential incoming president to be bolder than FDR on jobs.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Kamala Harris Fought to Keep Nonviolent Prisoners Locked Up
As California attorney general, she spent years subverting a 2011 Supreme Court ruling requiring the state to reduce its prison population. The overseeing judicial panel nearly found the state in contempt of court.
Posted inPolitics
Elizabeth Warren: VP or Treasury Secretary?
It’s a close question. But one way or another, she needs a senior post in a Biden administration.
Posted inDay One Agenda
The 277 Policies for Which Biden Need Not Ask Permission
As president, Joe Biden could take action on hundreds of policies without having to go through Congress. The Biden-Sanders unity task force provides a road map.
Posted inPolitics
How Biden and Trump Explain the American Story
On the campaign trail, it’s American progress versus blood and soil.
Posted inTAP
Biden’s Cabinet and the Thin Progressive Bench
Today on TAP: Breaking Wall Street’s hold on government
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.
