Individual senior staffers play a huge role, and may explain the Fed’s insularity and governance problems.
Media
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: What Takes the Place of Local News Ain’t News
Right-wing propaganda that looks like local papers is flooding America’s towns.
Posted inPolitics
The New York Times’ Misleading Headline of the Year
Biden hasn’t ‘thrown in with the left.’ The left has backed his compromises; the center-right has not.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Facebook Threat to Democracy—and Us All
On the hatred, violence, and lies that further enrich Mark Zuckerberg
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk
How critical race theory has become a handy target for an old-fashioned assault on civil rights.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: Even a Failed War Can Make You Lots of Money
If you’re an enterprising ex-general
Posted inAmerica and the World
Prospect Perspectives on the 9/11 Attacks
Alumni of the magazine reflect on the 20th anniversary
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Enemies We Made
Haunted by Predator drones in the sky and death squads on the ground
Posted inAmerica and the World
Altercation: The Forever Nonsense of Forever Warriors
A world without ubiquitous U.S. military presence? Horrors!
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Media Always Sees Democrats in Disarray
And they always see wars as worth fighting.
