Gabrielle Gurley

3 weeks ago | prospect.org | Gabrielle Gurley

On April 30, the Texas Economic Development Corporation published a blog post boasting that Texas is “rapidly becoming the renewable energy capital of the U.S. … As wind, solar, battery storage, and hydrogen energy continue to expand, the Lone Star State is helping shape a more resilient and diversified national grid.” It may surprise some people that Texas is the American poster child for clean energy.

1 month ago | prospect.org | Gabrielle Gurley

The Department of Justice has touched down in North Carolina—again. On Tuesday, in a bid to satisfy the Trump administration’s preoccupations with virtually nonexistent voter fraud, DOJ officials demanded that North Carolina comply with the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), supposedly to ensure that all voter records are accurate. The action comes weeks after the Republican candidate in the 2024 North Carolina state supreme court race lost by 734 votes.

1 month ago | prospect.org | Gabrielle Gurley

Last November, Missouri voters passed a mandatory paid sick leave ballot initiative and joined 17 other states and the District of Columbia with similar statutes on the books. Eligible private-sector employees, about 730,000 people, began accruing one day of sick leave for every 30 hours worked.

1 month ago | prospect.org | Gabrielle Gurley

This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. When it comes to summer weather in the eastern half of the country, people either whine about the haze and heat, the humidity and the thunderstorms, or they debate the best free app to track what’s coming next. Name brands like The Weather Channel and AccuWeather have free smartphone apps for the basics: high and low temperatures, sun or clouds or rain.

1 month ago | prospect.org | Gabrielle Gurley

In Washington, there’s blame enough to go around for the city’s sudden fiscal distress. Not just in the back rooms of the Capitol, where a fight club atmosphere has replaced open-minded deliberations. You can also find it in another raucous place further up Pennsylvania Avenue, where local officials unpack the federal decisions affecting ordinary Washingtonians. This week’s drama comes courtesy of the chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, who threatened to sue the mayor.