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Cultures of Impunity
NY Daily News via Getty ImagesEric Garner died while being arrested by police in Staten Island on July 17, 2014. This article appears in the Summer 2015 issue of The American Prospect magazine....
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Frustration Is Driving Both Parties' Voters Toward Radical Make-Believe
AP Photo/Cliff OwenDemocratic presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at Prince William Fairground in Manassas, Virginia, Monday, September 14, 2015....
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A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife -- and What It Says About...
In a reversal of earlier trends, death rates among white non-Hispanic Americans in midlife increased sharply between 1999 and 2013, according to a new study by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton,...
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We Need Clarity about ISIS, and the Democratic Candidates Didn’t Provide It
AP Photo/Jacques BrinonRescue workers gather at victims in the 10th district of Paris, Friday, November 13, 2015.Many Democrats—including the candidates for president at Saturday night’s debate in...
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Accelerating the Fight Against ISIS
AP Photo/Jacquelyn MartinPresident Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Sunday night, December 6, 2016. The president's speech followed Wednesday's...
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The False Lure of the Sanders Single-Payer Plan
(Photo: AP/Evan Vucci)Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders speaks during a campaign rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on January 30.Wouldn’t it be great if we could just go to the doctor...
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Isolationism is No Answer
This is a contribution to "Prospect Debate: Should We Fight ISIS?"prospect-debates-icon.jpgIn his response to my article in the Winter issue, Jeff Faux calls for the United States to abandon the fight...
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The Larger Problems of the Sanders Single Payer Plan
This is a contribution to Prospect Debate: The Cost of Sanders's Single-Payer Health Plan. prospect-debates-icon.jpgThink about what a single-payer health plan means. The federal government pays for...
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What If Trump Had Run as a Democrat?
AP Photo/John MinchilloRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump works the rope line during a campaign stop at the Savannah Center, Sunday, March 13, 2016, in West Chester, Ohio. A number of...
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The Democrats as a Movement Party
Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa/AP ImagesFollowing her victories in the Democratic primaries on "Super Tuesday," Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at a rally for her supporters, many...
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The Strange Silence about Sanders’s Tax Proposals
One of the regular patterns in public opinion polling is that approval for proposed programs is higher if a survey question omits any reference to the cost in higher taxes. The same phenomenon has...
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Trump’s Nomination Will Shake Confidence in American Democracy
(Photo: Sipa USA via AP/Monica Jorge)Protesters gather in Hartford, Connecticut, during a rally for GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump on April 15.With his victory in Indiana yesterday, Donald...
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What Is Hillary Clinton’s Agenda?
This article appeared in the Summer 2016 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. It is misleading, some observers have rightly pointed out, to treat the 2016 election as a contest...
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When an Election Damages Democracy
Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx via APDonald Trump at a rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on October 10, 2016. This article, written in September, appears under the title "When...
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Who Are We Americans Now?
This article appears in the Winter 2017 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here.“That’s not who we are,” Barack Obama often says when appealing to Americans to oppose illiberal policies...
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The Republican Health-Care Unraveling
Michael Reynolds/picture-alliance/dpa/AP ImagesSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy discuss the House Republican's new health-care plan to repeal and replace the...
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The Next Progressive Health Agenda
Erik McGregor/Sipa via AP ImagesHealth-care justice advocates and other grassroots groups gather outside Trump Tower to protest against President Trump's pledge to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This...
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A True Republican Health-Care Unraveling
AP Photo/Andrew HarnikHouse Speaker Paul Ryan pauses during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, March 24, 2017. The following article, which appears in the Spring 2017 issue of The...
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After Comey, Congressional Republicans Totally Control Trump
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)From left, Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, House Speaker Paul Ryan, White House...
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An American Way for America Now
National Archives/Public DomainMany of the efforts promoting national unity in the World War II era left out blacks—but not this poster from 1942, which encouraged racial tolerance among factory...
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