The Latest from the Prospect

How We Broke the Supply Chain: David Dayen and Rakeen Mabud’s introduction to our February issue identifies the culprits dragging down our economy: rampant outsourcing, financialization, monopolization, deregulation, and just-in-time logistics.

Clyburn Pushes Management-Side Labor Attorney for Supreme Court | Michelle Childs’s Punitive Criminal Justice Rulings Were Repeatedly Overturned: Judge J. Michelle Childs is emerging as a front-runner for the Supreme Court but has a history of defending employers accused in racial, gender, and other discrimination cases, reports Prospect Staff Writer Alexander Sammon.

The Hidden Costs of Containerization: Also in our new issue, contributor Amir Khafagy explains how the unsustainable growth of the container ship industry led to the supply chain crisis.

The Fight to Save the Manchin Nursing Home: The Manchin empire extends to a nursing home deep in West Virginia coal country, now threatened with closure. Writing Fellow Lee Harris looks at the family’s connection to a failing social welfare system.

China: Epicenter of the Supply Chain Crisis: Prospect Co-Editor Robert Kuttner details how concentrating dependence on China has upended our economy and added risk.