Gabrielle Gurley is The American Prospect’s deputy editor. Her email is ggurley@prospect.org.
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Riding for Free in Kansas City
Big cities have shunned free public transit. Now, KC’s free-fares push may provide transit systems across the country with a ‘how-to’ guide. Read more
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Best of 2019: Gabrielle Gurley
The Prospect’s deputy editor looks back at her favorite stories of the year. Read more
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Pabulum From Mayor Pete
Buttigieg used his dry wit to connect at The Washington Post, but his cluelessness on racism seems remarkably intact. Read more
Jason Schneider
Accelerating Equity in Electric Cars
Electric cars will eventually be all cars, but the speed by which they displace conventional cars will depend on making them affordable for low- and middle-income drivers. Read more
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African Americans Already Know Pete Buttigieg Very Well
He’s shown that he doesn’t understand the daily realities of being black in America. Read more
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Colorado Fails on Schools, Transportation Funding
Voters reject a constitutional amendment that would have ended tax refunds for state residents and re-directed those dollars to sectors in need of a fiscal infusion. Read more
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Colorado May Be Cool, but Its Roads and Schools Are Meh
Voters can’t fathom why a booming state doesn’t have great highways, transit, and public education—and in November, they’ll have a chance to fix them. Read more
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Flummoxed! Asked About Infrastructure, Larry Kudlow Pleads Ignorance
The president’s chief economic adviser comes up short in remarks to infrastructure leaders in Washington. Read more
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Democrats Need to Tackle Trump Administration’s Empty Promises on Infrastructure
Candidates should focus more attention on issues that matter, like the president’s failure to address infrastructure crisis. That means sidestepping vapid questions about the candidates’ unusual friendships. Read more
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Mitt Romney’s Impeachment Dilemma
During one of the most dangerous periods in American history, Senator Romney must abandon the hyper-caution that has defined his career, and cultivate allies that can extricate the country from political chaos. Read more
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Cannabis, the Bipartisan Wonder Drug
Senate Republicans say impeachment will stop legislative progress. But the House embraced a bipartisan measure this week designed to give marijuana businesses unfettered banking access. Will the Senate back it? Read more
Victor Juhasz
Make Marijuana Effectively Legal
By rescheduling cannabis as a less dangerous narcotic, the next president can upend the drug war and the damaging effects on communities of color. Read more
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Ed Rendell’s Sloppy Attempt to Dislodge Elizabeth Warren Backfires. Spectacularly.
The former Pennsylvania governor's long track record makes it too easy to unearth examples of his own hypocrisy. Read more
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Hurricane Dorian Spares Puerto Rico, but Trump Does Not
The president unleashes a tweetstorm against the mayor of San Juan and anything else associated with the island except, of course, his own failed leadership. Read more
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Ed Markey, Joe Kennedy, and Waiting-Your-Turn Politics in Massachusetts
The generational clash between the old guard and the new kids on the block could get ugly in the Bay State. Read more
Esteban Whiteside
An Artist Responds to Trump’s Cratering of America: A Q&A With Esteban Whiteside
In stark paintings and intense, vibrant collages, Whiteside confronts what Donald Trump has wrought and how the long arc of oppression in the American experience oozes into the lives of people of color every day. Read more
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#WeAreAllBaltimore
As The Baltimore Sun wrote, it’s better to have a few rats than to be one. Read more
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Trump Feeds on Hatred. Four Members of Congress Clap Back.
The president stokes race-baiting and potentially worse in service of his re-election campaign. Democrats must continue to call out these distractions and his epic failure to address the real concerns of average Americans. Read more
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Trump Uses Supporters as Props on the Environment
Trump’s latest campaign ploy recruits ordinary people to sing his environmental praises. Read more
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Boston’s Transportation Crisis: A Q&A with Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu
After recent subway derailments, Wu has taken up the banner that state political leaders have dropped, sounding the alarm that Massachusetts officials must develop comprehensive solutions to the beleaguered transit system before it’s too late. Read more
