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Take Back Our Party: Restoring the Democratic Legacy
The introduction to a new book, arguing that Democrats must return to their roots as a party of the poor, workers, and the middle class
What’s the Next Step for Equal Rights?
Virginia plans to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment next year, kicking off a battle over its fate.
Russia, America, and Creeping Authoritarianism
The Open Mind explores the world of ideas across politics, media, science, technology, and the arts. The American Prospect is republishing this edited excerpt.
Impeachment as a Derailer of the Judges Train
Today on TAP: Can a Senate trial stop the Trump judges from being confirmed?
Mother of Insulin Victim on Pelosi’s Drug Price Bill: ‘It Wouldn’t Have Saved My Son’s Life’
The Lower Drug Costs Now Act, with its critical gaps and questionable strategy, is a microcosm of how House Democratic leaders have done policy all year.
Green New Deal: The Urgent Realism of Radical Change
A socially just Green New Deal is far more feasible than skeptics think, as policy and technology. The challenge is the politics.
Getting to a Carbon-Free Economy
The urgent is attainable, and at entirely affordable cost.
Turning Trade Green
The Green New Deal needs to replace corporate trade and industrial policies with ones that put people and the planet first.
How Do We Pay for a Zero-Emissions Economy?
A clean economy is affordable—and the costs of inaction are incalculable.
Carbon Dividends and the Green New Deal
A carbon tax can work if we fairly distribute the proceeds.