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Jul 25, 2024 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |David Dayen |Maureen Tkacik
With the switch at the top of the Democratic ticket, Donald Trump has become a target-rich environment for Kamala Harris’s prosecutorial chops. "I took on perpetrators of all kinds," Harris told Democratic campaign staffers earlier this week, recalling her days as, successively, a Bay Area deputy DA, San Francisco’s top DA, and California’s attorney general. "Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.
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May 30, 2024 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |Gabrielle Gurley |Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Twenty-four years ago, when then-President Bill Clinton asked Congress to establish permanent normal trade relations with China, and Congress did just that, the chief argument that Clinton and the bill’s proponents made was that bringing China into the world capitalist system was sure to push the country in a democratic direction. Capitalism and democracy, they repeatedly averred, were inextricably linked.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | David Dayen |Ryan Cooper |Robert Kuttner |Tom Tomorrow
The senators who worked to increase merger filing fees and DOJ Antitrust budgets are not happy. "Diverting these fees is just wrong," said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), in a statement to the Prospect. "We passed strongly bipartisan legislation with an 88-8 vote to ensure that the Antitrust Division at the Justice Department has sufficient resources to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |Harold Meyerson |Gabrielle Gurley |Robert Kuttner
Do you recall Rep. Elise Stefanik’s passionate statement of outrage when a gunman massacred worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh? Me neither, because there wasn’t one. Or how about her eloquent speech attacking the “Jews will not replace us” marchers at Charlottesville? Nope. Stefanik is late to the party. The far right is philosemitic only when it serves their purposes.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Mairav Zonszein |David Dayen |Ryan Cooper |Maureen Tkacik
Israel and Palestine’s Existential War The shock of the October 7 attacks has exposed just how much is at stake, and the decisions being made now will reverberate for decades. BY MAIRAV ZONSZEIN ElectricVehicles Labor Uphill The UAW agreement with the Big Three builds a base of good jobs in EVs, and could help the entire transition. But interest rates are a huge impediment right now.
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Sep 27, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Harold Meyerson |Ryan Cooper |David Dayen
How to Oust Menendez: The Agnew Precedent Nixon’s vice president resigned in a plea bargain that spared him prison time. The premise in the coverage of the indictment of New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez for in flagrante bribery and corruption is that he cannot be forced to resign. Despite the increased calls for his resignation, Menendez seems determined to hold onto his seat. Menendez’s prime goal, however, has to be avoiding a conviction that would send him to prison.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |David Dayen |Gabrielle Gurley
The Punditocracy vs. the UAW Commentators argue that the union is asking for too much. But a big win may help the UAW organize the non-union competition. Yesterday, what we might politely term the non-labor wing of the Democratic punditocracy weighed in on the UAW strike against GM, Ford, and Stellantis. They didn’t like it.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | David Dayen |Ryan Cooper
On the Prospect website David Dayen on the increasingly bizarre thought processes that dominate congressional Republicans’ actions Bob Kuttner on the failure of Dodd-Frank to rein in increasingly riskybanking practices Ryan Cooper on Ken Paxton’s acquittal as a measure of the party’s control by Paxton’s bigoted billionaire buddy Can the UAW Strike Help It Expand to Non-UnionPlants? Probably not directly, but a goodcontract is a good selling point to workers at those factories.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |Robert Kuttner |Ramenda Cyrus
It Took a Village to Try to Seize the Presidency As the Georgia indictments make all too clear. With 19 indicted conspirators and 30 unindicted conspirators, there are now almost as many Republicans caught up in Fulton County’s wheels of justice as there are Republican candidates for president. At some point, we may want to indict those candidates (among whom only Chris Christie and, lately and reluctantly,Mike Pence have noted that Trump appears to have broken the law), too.
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Jul 26, 2023 | 
americanprospect.bluelena.io | Liz Rosenberg |Emma Murphy |Ryan Cooper
"A prophet is not without honor save in his own country," sayeth the Bible. And in a brilliantly complementary insight, John Maynard Keynes wrote, "it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally."Prophets whose views challenge orthodoxcertainties are seldom honored in their own lifetimes or their own countries. They are often ridiculed and scorned. If they are academics, they risk not getting tenure.
