Donald Trump could well kill more funds for the construction of critical rail infrastructure projects—which doesn’t bode well for the Northeast.
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An Organizer’s Life
There’s a scene in last year’s documentary by Lilly Rivlin, Heather Booth: Changing the World, in which Heather and Paul Booth discuss how they met at an anti-war sit-in at the University of Chicago’s administration building in 1966. “The sit-in lasted several days and nights. We got to know each other very well,” Paul recalled. […]
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Redemption for Offenders and Victims
A new variation on an age-old tradition helps criminal defendants redeem their lives, far more effectively than prison does.
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Health-Care Reform’s Disability Blind Spot
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. Imagine that you attend a country music concert or a quiet Texas church service, or are simply stopped at a local red […]
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A New Strategy for Health Care
Looking beyond Trump, Democrats ought to focus on opening Medicare to people at age 50 and capping excessive health-care prices.
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The Road to Medicare for Everyone
Here’s how we get past the political obstacles that have kept America from making affordable health care a right.
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The Next Big Thing in Health Reform: Where to Start?
This article appears in the Winter 2018 issue of The American Prospect magazine as part of a joint project with the Century Foundation on Health Reform 2020. Subscribe here to The American Prospect. The next Democratic candidate for president or Democratic Congress will likely embrace some sort of public plan as part of the “next […]
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The New Reformer DAs
As cities grow more progressive, a new breed of prosecutors are winning office and upending the era of lock-’em-up justice. They may hold the key to resisting Trump’s mania for mass incarceration.
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The Forgotten Origins of the Constitution on Campus
Foes of hateful speech should remember how free expression was protected on campus in the first place—through the civil rights movement.
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Saving the Free Press From Private Equity
Navigating the digital transition is a huge challenge for newspapers. Absentee ownership by private equity predators makes it all but impossible.