"If not for Frances Perkins, Social Security, as Americans understand the program today, would not have been created." A timely reminder from @prospect.org that Social Security was built through intentional political choices and can be strengthened through them, too.

Frances Perkins: The Architect of Social Security - The American Prospect

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.’

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The cover-up should prompt lawmakers to strengthen anti–money laundering laws and pass new legislation to hold individual bankers accountable, said Wyden. prospect.org?p=142123

As mentor to the emerging postwar generation of Black radicals, Randolph presided over the conception and planning of the first Freedom Rides. prospect.org?p=142103

Can AIPAC single-handedly revive an also-ran candidate in a sleepy special election? prospect.org?p=142147

Under the auspices of fighting international cartels and combating Chinese influence, Trump has sought to revive authoritarianism in the region. prospect.org?p=142134

Today, voters in Michigan head to the polls to decide one of the year’s most highly contested Democratic primaries. prospect.org?p=142115

Progressives ran campaigns on issues that mattered to voters, while their opponents fell back on old electability arguments. prospect.org?p=141987

If not for Perkins, Social Security, as Americans understand the program today, would not have been created. prospect.org?p=142008

After extended conversations with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, John Cornyn agreed to support his nomination. And the details of the deal reeked. prospect.org?p=141965

You might call 'Ted Lasso' the last essential pop-culture artifact of the first Trump administration. prospect.org?p=141950

The question is whether someone wanted to do Moulton a big favor by giving him the chance to get in on the ground floor of a company wired for rapid growth, helped by policies championed by Moulton. prospect.org?p=141929

Thanks to Pecora, public opinion went from being bewildered about what had crashed the economy to accurately blaming the conflicts of interests of the leading bankers. prospect.org?p=141893

Instead of passing through bankruptcy, insolvent life insurers have all their liabilities—in particular the policyholder claims—paid for by state guaranty funds. prospect.org?p=141919

“One of the beautiful things about history is that oftentimes we don’t know what we’ve achieved in the past, and that limits our horizons for what we can achieve in the future.“ prospect.org?p=141867

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According to a survey of 2,250 farmworkers across 16 states, family separation is the top fear, with 90 percent of respondents saying so. Eighty-eight percent said they feared detention and deportation. prospect.org/2026/07/31/u...

Top Farmworker Fear Is Family Separation - The American Prospect

A first-of-its-kind survey by the UFW Foundation quantifies the impact of Trump’s mass deportation campaign on farmworkers, the vast majority of whom are undocumented.

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Tarbell was concerned with understanding not just how the world worked, but for whom. prospect.org?p=141797

People with serious medical issues will have to jump through undefined bureaucratic hoops to “prove” they cannot work 80 hours a month, with the risk of a coverage loss if that’s denied. prospect.org?p=141790

Once upon a time, the base and the donor class of the Democratic Party did not seem wholly irreconcilable. prospect.org?p=141779

Amazon and Walmart, despite having the technical ability to detect which products are U.S.-made, suppress those products in search results generated by the retailers’ respective chatbots. buff.ly/Ueqrj0g

The Great ‘Made in the USA’ Fraudyssey - The American Prospect

Amazon and Walmart are well equipped to detect deceptive claims about where products are made. Their own AI chatbots describe the choice not to act as a business decision.

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With less than a week until Election Day and over 800,000 Michiganders having already voted, establishment and normie Democrats are engaged in a collective mass panic and a frantic effort to keep El-Sayed from winning the nomination with whatever they have in their arsenal. buff.ly/r1v0I6f

Abdul El-Sayed Lost in 2018. It Set Him Up for 2026. - The American Prospect

I covered Abdul El-Sayed when he ran for governor and lost. Here’s how he and the landscape have changed.

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At a time when constitutional protections are being knocked down by the Roberts Court, Brandeis’s dissents demonstrate to Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson that there is power in building an argument with care and precision. prospect.org?p=141628

Across the United States, employers with newly minted union shops currently stall for an average of 465 days to negotiate a first contract. prospect.org?p=141546

“We have to bring in pallets of bottled water to make sure veterans in the waiting room don’t keel over from dehydration,” a doctor told the Prospect. “Operations are canceled because of the heat in the operating rooms.” prospect.org?p=141659

Our impulsive and oblivious president is not good at connecting dots. One set of Trump policies raises inflation, while Trump pressures the Fed to ignore the problem and cut interest rates. buff.ly/uaAGIo8

Trump’s New Fed Chair Deserts Trump - The American Prospect

Under Kevin Warsh, the Federal Reserve refuses to cut interest rates and may soon raise them.

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Armed with a pistol, Wells traveled the country, visiting sites of racialized violence and interviewing Black community members. prospect.org?p=141251

The latest battle between the Democratic Party’s insurgent left flank and moderate incumbents in Congress may also be the strangest of the cycle. prospect.org?p=141573

The Rural Health Transformation Program is not simply a grant program. It is leverage. prospect.org?p=141525

If this Republic survives, it will take a combination of citizen mobilization and vigilant courts that have increasingly lost patience with Trump’s efforts to govern as a dictator. prospect.org?p=141549

Even with so much of his life’s work in ruins, he never gave up on America or freedom. So how can we? prospect.org?p=141247