How high schoolers in the Washington, D.C., area arranged housing, food, and programs for the weekend’s marchers, and transformed themselves into political organizers
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Posted inEconomic Policy
Company Towns Are Still with Us
And as unions’ difficulties in organizing auto plants make clear, where a company dominates the town, unionization is really hard.
Posted inHousing and Transportation
How the Globalists Ceded the Field to Donald Trump
Unless the mainstream offers something better, he will be the voice of economic nationalism.
Posted inEconomic Policy
An Economic Bill of Rights for the 21st Century
In 1944, Franklin Roosevelt proposed constitutional amendments to guarantee Americans’ fundamental economic rights. It was never adopted—and today, is more necessary than ever. Here’s an adaptation of his program for our time.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Democracy in America Can Survive Donald Trump
Alexis de Tocqueville observed in 1835 that “the greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.” Tocqueville’s observation, broadly accurate over the past two centuries, is facing perhaps its most severe test today. In its 2016 “Democracy Index” report, the Economist […]
Posted inHousing and Transportation
Democracy and Its Discontents
Three authors engage with the threats to a liberal society.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Congressional Review Act: A Damage Assessment
How Trump’s Republicans have used an obscure Gingrich-era law to eviscerate health, safety, labor, environmental, and financial protections
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Two Sides of Immigration Policy
We need to legalize the undocumented already here, but open borders will mean lower wages for American workers.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
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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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.
