What the ‘My’ in ‘My Kevin’ Actually Means - The American Prospect
Dec 15, 2020 · You can count on the Prospect, can we count on you?. There's no paywall here. Your donations power our newsroom as we report on ideas, politics and power — and what’s really at stake as we navigate another presidential election year.
A Green Transition for West Virginia - The American Prospect
Mar 9, 2021 · Last month, the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) of UMass Amherst released a report on a proposed clean-energy transition program for West Virginia. It’s one of several PERI reports that provide a template for how to redevelop West Virginia—or Ohio or Pennsylvania—by combining an energy transition program with an economic-development program and a land reclamation program.
Attacking the ‘You Are the Product’ Economy - The American …
Feb 2, 2023 · The old adage about the internet platform economy goes like this: “If something is free, you are the product.” Facebook, Google, and other sites invite users into a world and try to keep them there as long as possible to target ads, conducting mass surveillance that tracks your every waking move.
Fracking Loses Its Bite as a Wedge Issue in Pennsylvania
Nov 2, 2020 · The sun shines through clouds above a shale gas drilling site in St. Marys, Pennsylvania. A majority of Pennsylvanians now oppose fracking, according to recent polling.
Economic Nationalism Becomes Mainstream—and Sensible
Jun 15, 2021 · President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference after attending the G7 summit, June 13, 2021, at Cornwall Airport in Newquay, England.
Dr. King, Forgotten Radical - The American Prospect
Apr 4, 2008 · America began perverting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message in the spring of 1963. Truthfully, you could put the date just about anywhere along the earlier timeline of his brief public life, too.
How the Supreme Court Contributed to Growing Inequality
Jan 29, 2020 · President Donald Trump appears eager to accelerate the cycle of inequality. His judicial nominees are, if anything, more reactionary than Nixon’s, hungry to tighten the richest Americans’ stranglehold on democracy while permitting the oppression of …
Elon Musk’s Twitter Debacle Shows the Problem With Billionaires
Nov 21, 2022 · Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter does not seem to be going well. Just three weeks after buying the company, Musk has fired the entire executive suite and half the staff, fired dozens more for insufficiently slavish devotion, and most recently has apparently driven off something like 40 percent of those who remain with an abrupt demand to submit to a “hardcore” new contract without most of ...
Biden Can End the War on Terror on Day One
Dec 15, 2020 · This story is part of the Prospect’s series on how the next president can make progress without new legislation.Read all of our Day One Agenda articles here. Even as America’s military footprint has dramatically expanded across two decades, Congress’s war powers have atrophied for lack of use.
Flying Blind - The American Prospect
Dec 21, 2021 · The global cargo shipping and logistics system fails as a network because of fragmentation and poor coordination among its multiple elements. One aspect of this failure that has gotten little attention is fragmented data.