Reversing Emma Lazarus
Poverty & Wealth
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Going Radical
On our weekly news show, David Dayen and Robert Kuttner discuss how policymakers both in America and across the pond need to think bigger.
Posted inBooks
Antitax Nation
Michael Graetz’s new book explains how clever marketing duped America into shoveling more tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.
Posted inPolitics
The Pious One, Donald Trump
The least likely embodiment of Christian virtues in American life is practically running as an evangelical minister.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Republicans Attempt to Invalidate Democratic Policy Because It’s Democratic
The latest student debt lawsuit targets a program that’s been in place for over 30 years and is mandated by statute. It would effectively make it illegal to implement a law as a Democrat.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Welfare State Fails the Poor
A bureaucratic paper chase undermines compassion and practical help for the needy, while Wall Street gets whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Posted inEducation in America
New York City’s Last Dictatorship
After 20 years, New York reconsiders mayoral control of its education system.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Biden Judge Nominee Worked for Vulture Funds Holding Puerto Rican Debt
Sparkle Sooknanan served as one of Jones Day’s lead attorneys for a series of investors trying to maximize payouts from the struggling U.S. territory.
Posted inTAP
America’s Richest Men Ask the Courts to Make Unions Illegal
Today on TAP: Lawyers for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon say the Court erred in 1937 by letting workers have rights on the job.
Posted inWorking in America
Southern Autoworkers Organize, Business Class Tries to Wallop Them
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, face a coordinated attack on their organizing, but have learned from two prior losses.
