Zephyr Teachout

1 month ago | prospect.org | Zephyr Teachout

This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful By David Enrich Mariner CBS’s 60 Minutes has been the top-rated news show in America since 1974, longer than most Americans have been alive. One in three Americans watched it last year, and it reached 100 million viewers total.

1 month ago | constitution.congress.gov | Robert G. Natelson |Zephyr Teachout |John Moore |Deborah Samuel Sills

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State. The Foreign Emoluments Clause’s basic purpose is to prevent corruption and limit foreign influence on federal officers.

1 month ago | nybooks.com | Fintan O’Toole |Sara Nelson |Astra Taylor |Zephyr Teachout

For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson discuss what successful opposition looks like today. You may view all available recordings in this series on this page.

2 months ago | thenation.com | Zephyr Teachout

Hold the powerful to account by supporting The Nation The chaos and cruelty of the Trump administration reaches new lows each week. Trump’s catastrophic “Liberation Day” has wreaked havoc on the world economy and set up yet another constitutional crisis at home. Plainclothes officers continue to abduct university students off the streets. So-called “enemy aliens” are flown abroad to a mega prison against the orders of the courts.

2 months ago | washingtonmonthly.com | Zephyr Teachout

America is in a funk. People are unhappy with every major institution of government, from Congress to the Supreme Court to newspapers to the Democratic Party, and they lack confidence in the future. The rent is too damn high and wages too low, the health care system is broken, fires and floods are wrecking our communities, and we can’t even build a decent high-speed rail to rival 1990s Europe.