Much is riding on how Americans approach new development and managed retreat as the climate crisis worsens over the next decade.
Prospects 2032
Posted inHousing
Why We Need Social Housing
What Medicare for All is for health care, social housing is for shelter.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Cut Off Private Equity’s Money Spigot
A variety of legislative and regulatory actions would make it hard for private equity to stay in business. That should be the goal.
Posted inWorking in America
A Four-Day Week at Five Days’ Pay
Workers (and their families) are stressed by the long hours they have to put in. It’s past time to cut those hours.
Posted inWorking in America
Thinking Sectorally
Our current model of collective bargaining leaves millions of workers out in the cold. Sectoral bargaining could change all that—and, just maybe, rebuild our shrunken middle class.
Posted inPolitics
It’s Time for Universal Voting
Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.
Posted inPolitics
Abolish State Senates
What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.
Posted inPolitics
Looking Over the Horizon
A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
It’s Time for Public Pharma
Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care.
Posted inLaw and Justice
What to Do About the Court
A Prospect symposium on judicial review and the separation of powers