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Media Accountability

March 26, 2025 | The American Prospect

Hannah Story Brown

Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentGovernment CapacityMedia AccountabilityTrump 2.0

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.

November 20, 2024 | Revolving Door Project Newsletter

KJ Boyle

Newsletter

CabinetExecutive BranchMedia AccountabilityRevolving Door

A Lame-Duck Prelude of the Next Four Years

It’s only been two weeks since Donald Trump was re-elected President and the tenor of the next four years is already taking shape. The speed with which Trump’s transition team is announcing executive branch appointments is matched only by the swiftness with which those appointees will decimate the government’s capacity to serve the American people. The question now is whether Democrats and media understand the gravity of the situation and will act accordingly.