Harold Meyerson is editor at large of The American Prospect. His email is hmeyerson@prospect.org.
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Washington (the State, Not the Feds) Raises Overtime Pay
Today on TAP: Once again, Washington leads with worker-friendly state laws Read more
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The Green New Deal as Economic Development
It can create millions of jobs. It can compensate old-economy workers who lose theirs. It can rebuild America. Read more
How You Can Help the Prospect, Journalism, and Civilization Itself
Today on TAP: Introducing the Prospect Monthly Donor Challenge Read more
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The Battle in Seattle
A look back at the origins of the 21st-century left Read more
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Your Thanksgiving Lesson: How ‘Turkey’ Became a Derogatory Term
Today on TAP: Happy Thanksgiving from the Prospect! Read more
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The Essential Trump
Today on TAP: A window into our president’s malignant psyche Read more
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Not Just Trump’s John Dean. More Dangerously, Trump’s Trump.
Today on TAP: In Gordon Sondland, Trump has met his match Read more
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Pete Caught in Headlights; Kamala Unbound
Buttigieg summons shades of Michael Dukakis. No offense to Dukakis, but that’s not good. Read more
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Bernie Voted for Obamacare. That Didn’t Make Him a Sellout.
Today on TAP: Medicare for All may arrive in stages, and that’s OK Read more
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Wall Street the Answer to Democratic Jitters? Come On.
Today on TAP: Mike Bloomberg is not the cure to what ails the party Read more
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It’s Old and White, but New Hampshire Is Not Republican
And while Democratic hopefuls have swarmed the state, three-quarters of Democratic voters don’t know whom they’ll support. Read more
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Biden’s and Buttigieg’s Sexist Attacks
Today on TAP: The ‘likeability’ question descends on Elizabeth Warren Read more
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The Most Personal Presidency Ever
Today on TAP: Donald Trump’s presidency is all about Donald Trump Read more
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The Empty Center of American Politics Descends on New Hampshire
Where second-tier presidential candidates talk bipartisanship while not really agreeing with each other on much of anything Read more
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The Nats Shouldn’t Go to the White House—Their Fans Despise Trump
What the numbers show: To love the Nats is to loathe the president. Read more
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Irresistible: Dodger Fan Succumbs to Nats
Today on TAP: The most powerful thing in the world Read more
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How to Save Newspapers and Magazines: Corporate Apology Ads
Today on TAP: Boeing’s hard-copy apology blitz Read more
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How Elizabeth Warren Can Address the Medicare for All Question
Today on TAP: A focus on taxes tells only half the story Read more
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In the First Debates, the Candidates Didn’t Get Enough Time to Answer. Last Night, They Got Too Much.
The best way to avoid the curse of déjà vu would be for the moderators to turn the discussion to topics they’ve thus far scanted. Read more
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Bargaining for More
Can unions change labor law so that they can reach a deal with all employers? Read more
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What the Socialists Just Did—and Why
Dissecting DSA’s battles to define its role in American politics Read more
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Biden Didn’t Dodder, and Other Observations
Also: What’s Gabbard’s game? Read more
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Who’s Up, Who’s Down, Who’s Out to Lunch
The Gang of Five won't be getting any bigger. Read more
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Why Democrats Can’t Pick One of Those Many Senators for Veep
The party has given its VP nod to a senator (or renominated a veep who was a senator) at every convention but one since 1944. Next year, that’s not an option. Read more
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The Fight for 15’s Long, Winding, and Brandeisian Road
The progression of the Fight for 15 from a left-wing community organization and a left-wing union to left-wing cities to left-wing states to the Democratic mainstream is representative of the broader transformation of the Democratic Party in recent years. Read more
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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, JULY 4 (ANNOTATED)
ULTRA-TOP-SECRET: For POTUS (DJT), Ivanka and Jared (JK) only Read more
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How Centrists Misread Scandinavia When Attacking Bernie and Elizabeth
Commentators like David Brooks love Scandinavian economics—except the part about unions. Read more
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Handicapping the Democratic Field After the First Debates
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Never Mind the Russians. It’s the Court That Rigs Our Elections.
The five Republican justices’ gerrymandering decision ensures GOP rule even when the party’s in the minority. Read more
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Bernie, Son of FDR
Sanders casts his socialism as an updated continuation of the New Deal. Read more
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The God-Damnedest Policy Paper of the Year
Senator Marco Rubio calls out corporate short-sightedness in a startling new paper—but he's short on solutions. Read more
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The Writers Guild’s Dispute Had a Prequel. Lew Wasserman and the Feds Were the Stars.
But this time around, the Justice Department isn't interested in challenging antitrust violations. Read more
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With Uber’s Stock Tanking, Trump’s NLRB Rides to Its Rescue
The Board chose today to release a month-old memo saying Uber drivers can’t unionize. Read more
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The Malign Cluelessness of the Billionaire Bourgeoisie
Capitalism is more unpopular than ever—but the billionaire class has yet to catch on. Read more
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Trump Did What Nixon Did, but Today’s GOP Won’t Convict
With the assistance of Fox News and its ilk, Republicans have cocooned themselves against all evidence. Read more
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How Think Progress Would Have Attacked Franklin Roosevelt
The Center for American Progress is hardly the first institution to label liberals and leftists of some means as inauthentic or hypocritical for their own attacks on concentrated wealth. Read more
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House Democrats Play Dirty to Shut Out Progressive New Voices
The new rule against primary challenges is meant to tilt the party more towards the center. Read more
