Posted in Health and Social Policy The disability rights activist carried forward the demands of those who didn’t get to live to see the movement’s triumphs. by Nathan Tankus August 7, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your… Continue reading
Posted in Health and Social Policy The incredible life and times of the Catholic who served the poor and gave hell to everyone else by Maureen Tkacik August 6, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe… Continue reading
Posted in Civil Rights in America A. Philip Randolph led Black workers and won defining civil rights victories over a career spanning 60 turbulent years. by Harold Meyerson August 5, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox,… Continue reading
Posted in Working in America In her words, Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet secretary, ‘came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.’ by Gabrielle GurleyAugust 4, 2026 This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next… Continue reading
Posted in Politics How Sicilian immigrant Ferdinand Pecora upended the rule of the bankers and ushered in FDR’s radical reforms of capitalism by Robert Kuttner August 3, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. In… Continue reading
Posted in Politics Thomas Paine’s lifelong battle for freedom by Thor Benson July 27, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. When Americans discuss the Founders, there’s always a cloud of shame hanging overhead. One might like… Continue reading
Posted in Politics If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse. by Ryan Cooper July 28, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue… Continue reading
Posted in Law and Justice Louis Brandeis believed that facts could change lives and break excessive power where it accumulated. by David Dayen July 30, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. “Iam no theorist,” Louis Brandeis… Continue reading
Posted in Money, Politics, and Power Not even Teddy Roosevelt could break up his corrupt oil monopoly—until a daughter of the Pennsylvania oil fields came along. by Whitney Curry Wimbish July 31, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox,… Continue reading
Posted in Politics By chronicling the shame of lynching in the South, Ida B. Wells exposed the corruption of white supremacy. by Naomi Bethune July 29, 2026 (Prospect.org) This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. At the age of… Continue reading
