Reading Between the Rights - The American Prospect
WEBJun 9, 2011 · Reading Between the Rights. Nearly 50 years after Griswold v. Connecticut, conservatives think the Constitution protects your privacy. by Scott Lemieux. June 9, 2011. T his week marks the 46th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court reproductive-rights case Griswold v. Connecticut, in which the Court struck down Connecticut's ban on the ...
Who Is Eric Adams? - The American Prospect
WEBJul 9, 2021 · Expand. John Minchillo/AP Photo. New York Democratic mayoral primary winner Eric Adams attends a parade honoring essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, July 7, 2021, in New York. To begin with Adams himself, his decades of shape-shifting doubtless contributed both to his victory and …
The Progressive Caucus Wields Power - The American Prospect
WEBOct 1, 2021 · This is the 30th year of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), but in another sense, today is the first day. It’s the first day Washington has seen a coherent, organized coalition in Congress wielding power from the left. And it has the congressional leadership confused. In the past, whenever the Democratic leadership needed a vote on ...
A Conversation With Rosa Brooks - The American Prospect
WEBFeb 25, 2021 · Prospect co-founder Robert Kuttner interviews the author of the new book ‘Tangled Up in Blue,’ on police reform. This interview has been slightly condensed from the video above. Robert Kuttner: Congratulations on the publication of Tangled Up in Blue. Your day job is a law professor at Georgetown. Among other things, you study the criminal ...
Comment: Schlemiel, Schlimazel - The American Prospect
WEBDecember 19, 2001. One of my favorite hoary bits of Jewish humor explains the difference between a schlemiel (a fool) and a schlimazel (one prone to misfortune): A schlemiel is the traveler who spills his coffee on a fellow passenger. A schlimazel is the fellow he spills it on. Vice President Al Gore has to be the schlimazel of American politics.
Dr. King, Forgotten Radical - The American Prospect
WEBApr 4, 2008 · Long before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, America began to forget his true legacy. by Kai Wright. April 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.
Deficit Lessons for the Pandemic From the 2008 Crisis
WEBApr 6, 2020 · Deficit Lessons for the Pandemic From the 2008 Crisis. Watching the economy tank, October 2008. This is part of our economists roundtable on the corona crisis. Economics is sometimes defined as the science of scarcity. If resources are scarce, it would seem, a country can’t print money, give it to someone, without consequences: There will be ...
The Crash of Austerity Economics - The American Prospect
WEBOct 8, 2019 · A decade ago, Alberto Alesina was one of the most influential economists in the world. His theory of “expansionary austerity”—the paradoxical notion that reducing public expenditure would lead to an increase in economic activity—was one of the hottest ideas in macroeconomics. He claimed to have shown that government surpluses could ...
Republicans’ Monstrous Cruelty Toward President Zelensky
WEBMar 2, 2022 · Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has become an international celebrity overnight on the strength of his wartime leadership. An actor who literally played the president in a goofy comedy and once played the piano on TV with an, uh, unusual body part has turned out to be equal parts master diplomat and staggeringly courageous war leader. Unlike many wartime politicians who flee at the ...
The Role of Public Capital - The American Prospect
WEBDec 5, 2019 · The Role of Public Capital. A Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the 21st century. by Kevin Baker. December 5, 2019. There is an obvious reason why the New Deal is the model for the immense changes we need to address global climate change. The New Deal, and our response to the war that followed, were the only times in …