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Prospect

Playing Hardball

1 year ago
Rebalancing conflicts over state policy will require that blue states wield power differently.
Arkadi Gerney and Sarah Knight

Cutting Through the Granite

1 year ago
Democrat Maggie Goodlander, a former Biden antitrust official, is bringing a message of fighting corporate power to New Hampshire’s notoriously prickly voters.
Luke Goldstein

Housing Blues

1 year ago
Blue states are the hot spots for the country’s housing affordability crisis.
Rachael Dziaba

Leveraging the Money Power

1 year ago
Progressive state and city officials are pushing back against the right’s war on ‘woke capitalism.’ They could be doing even more with trillions of dollars in pension funds.
Robert Kuttner

America’s Judicial Divisions

1 year ago
Every major policy issue is now also a courtroom battle, decided in increasingly partisan settings. And there’s no end in sight.
Hassan Ali Kanu

Big Fiscal or Big Business

1 year ago
If Harris wins, her chief of staff selection will determine whether she maintains a united front, or sides with corporate interests.
Max Moran