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March 26, 2025 | The American Prospect
An Abundance of Credulity
In the months before the re-election of Donald Trump precipitated our rapid descent into authoritarianism, two books were being written about the idea that progressivism went astray in the 1960s and 1970s. In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson describe a drift into a “politics of scarcity,” and in Why Nothing Works, Marc Dunkelman calls it a “cultural aversion to power.” Both books ask a pertinent question: Why doesn’t the government do big, bold things, quickly, to address the pressing issues of our time? We have an abundance of viewpoints and veto points, they argue, but a shortage of affordable housing and transmission lines. Something’s got to give. The unstated question, of course, is who must give.
March 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Paul, Weiss Appeased Trump. More Attacks on BigLaw Will Follow.
Fascists respond to capitulation with more aggression. Elon Musk has already started targeting firms himself.
March 22, 2025 | Common Dreams
The End of Free Speech?
If the White House can punish anybody who engages in speech it dislikes, nobody will be free to criticize the government—and corporate criminals will be free to run amok.
March 19, 2025 | The American Prospect
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightDOGEEconomic PolicyElon MuskExecutive BranchGovernanceGovernment CapacityHousingRussell VoughtTrump 2.0
DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
March 06, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Clean Air Act is Under Attack
In 1943, Los Angeles residents awoke to a city so thoroughly pervaded by eye-stinging smog that they thought the city had been the victim of a World War II-related chemical attack. It hadn’t. Rather, a boom in car infrastructure coupled with new and existing industrial pollution caused sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and other particulate matter to dominate the air in the city. At times it was nearly impossible to see more than a few blocks, or to breathe outside of one’s home.
March 05, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Case for a Shadow Cabinet
High-energy progressives can provide a compelling daily account of everything going wrong and coordinate opposition to the Trump-Musk nightmare.
March 05, 2025 | The Sling
Should The Government Subsidize Artificial Intelligence?
It turns out that you can develop cutting edge AI with orders of magnitude less money and energy than we’ve been told.
February 25, 2025 | The American Prospect
Why Haven't House Democrats Moved to Impeach Scott Bessent?
There’s mounting evidence that Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary is not telling the truth about DOGE’s infiltration of the federal payments system.
February 07, 2025 | The American Prospect
Trump’s Energy Czar Is All In on AI
When Donald Trump nominated North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to be his interior secretary, centrist to right-of-center “abundance agenda” advocates were jubilant. Politico reported, with typically amoral zeal, that Interior would be led by an “overnight rock star in the tech and energy worlds.” Burgum has a foot in both camps, as a former governor from fracking country with deep ties to fossil fuel executives like fracking magnate Harold Hamm, and a venture capitalist invested in software companies who sold his own software company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001.
January 29, 2025 | The American Prospect
The Texas Model
Trump’s inner circle is stacked with corporate lackeys, far-right influencers, and as Public Citizen described it, “Self-Enriching Grifters.” Many of them, though (somewhat) new to the national political spotlight, are all too familiar to observers of one state: Texas.
January 09, 2025 | The American Prospect
Op-Ed 2024 Election/TransitionBudgetClimate and EnvironmentExecutive BranchGovernment CapacityHousingRussell Vought
Trump’s Attack on Government Capacity Will Fan the Flames of the Home Insurance Crisis
The U.S. Forest Service is already underfunded and understaffed. Slashing its resources further is likely to unleash more severe wildfires.
December 24, 2024 | The American Prospect
We Already Run the Post Office Like a Business
The U.S. Postal Service loses money because of stifling rules and a mandate to serve the entire country. Privatization would only raise costs and reduce service.
December 23, 2024 | The American Prospect
The VA's Self-Made Dialysis Disaster
Former Representative Doug Collins is Donald Trump’s pick to head the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a federal agency that oversees the administration of health care to over 9.1 million veterans. Collins, notably, is a veteran himself, but has seemingly little background on veterans issues. His early pronouncements are superficially bland, promising to “root out corruption, and ensure every veteran receives the benefits they’ve earned,” among other things.
December 18, 2024 | Rolling Stone
Biden Must Free the Man Who Exposed Trump’s Tax Avoidance
Joe Biden must commute the sentence of Charles Littlejohn, the IRS whistleblower who leaked Donald Trump’s tax records, before Trump can get revenge.
December 18, 2024 | Slate
Meet the Terrifying Line of Shock Troops Likely to Make Up the New Trump DOJ
Donald Trump’s first Department of Justice was a bastion of legal and ethical impropriety led by figures seeking to fundamentally collapse the rule of law. His attorneys general sought to gut civil rights, dehumanize immigrants, further militarize the border, and undermine the basic tenets of American democracy.