Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 10, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Donald, It’s Not About You

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 10, 2020 at 4:05 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Labor Repression in Mexico and Dangers in the Workplace | The Testing Problem

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  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 9, 2020 at 8:27 PM

Meyerson on TAP: One More Confederate Monument to Destroy: The Electoral College

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 9, 2020 at 4:07 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The United States is a Second Rate Power—And That’s the Good News

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  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 8, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Steve Bannon Gets His Wish

  JULY 8, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Steve Bannon Gets His Wish When Steve Bannon impulsively phoned me three years ago and said some incautious things about his boss, he got fired as White House political director when the Prospect published my i…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 8, 2020 at 4:04 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | COVID-19 as a Bucket on a Swivel | Abdul El-Sayed Talks About the Crisis Moment | More on the PPP Witch Hunt

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  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 7, 2020 at 8:47 PM

Meyerson on TAP: Majority Rule? Not Yet, Fellow Americans

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 7, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The PPP Witch Hunt is Misplaced

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  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 6, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Ten Good Things That Could Come of COVID

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 6, 2020 at 4:04 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | How the CARES Act Led to the Pandemic Surge

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  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 3, 2020 at 7:04 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

  JULY 3, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Not if Trump has anything to do with it. Trump’s support in the polls has been collapsing, especially in the suburbs. So Trump has resorted to one of the oldest racist tricks in the book…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 3, 2020 at 4:04 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The Vaccine Race That Should Be a Potluck

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  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 2, 2020 at 9:37 PM

Meyerson on TAP: Monuments: Coming Down, Going Up?

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 2, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Jobs Reports vs Today’s Reality | Case and Death Counts Diverge in States

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  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 1, 2020 at 7:02 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Why Is Joe Kennedy Running Against Ed Markey?

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

July 1, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Jamaal Bowman, Rent Cancellation and the Rise of Radical Black Politics | PPP Ends, and Begins

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  Ellen J. Meany, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 30, 2020 at 7:07 PM

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A Special Message from Prospect Publisher Ellen J. Meany   The American Prospect does not have a paywall. An array of consultants in the news media game think this is the wrong way to do business. But that’s not how we think. We want our stories to be read and shared and …

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 30, 2020 at 4:09 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Time to Seize Drug Patents | The Scene in LA | The End of the PPP

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  Gabriel Gurley, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 29, 2020 at 7:02 PM

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Preview A Special Message from Prospect Deputy Editor Gabrielle Gurley   In 2016 before a New York real estate tycoon became president, I wrote: “The post-Ferguson violence in black communities is a reaction to a long and historic list of grievances beginning with the misa…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 29, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Medicare for Coronavirus | COVID Upends Fracking

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  Alexander Sammon, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 28, 2020 at 2:08 PM

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A Special Message from Prospect Managing Editor Alexander Sammon   A lot of different crises unfolding on a number of different timelines had to travel a long way to arrive at this particular moment all at once. We have acute failures of public health, policing, and unem…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 27, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The Reason Donald Trump Will Lose Is Important

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  Jonathan Guyer, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 27, 2020 at 12:13 PM

Today On TAP: Join The American Prospect

A Special Message from Prospect Managing Editor Jonathan Guyer   When Washington, D.C., shut down in mid-March, we were a week away from closing a print issue. Our office was shuttered, but we had a lot to do. It wasn’t just selecting the cover or the pull-quotes. We had …

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  Brittany Gibson, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 26, 2020 at 7:02 PM

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A Special Message from Prospect Writing Fellow Brittany Gibson   Contributing to The American Prospect means supporting independent journalism and original reporting. For 30 years, the Prospect has taken on the challenge of investigating and analyzing under-reported storie…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 26, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Stimulus Debit Cards Come With a Forced Arbitration Clause

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  Marcia Brown, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 25, 2020 at 7:03 PM

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Preview A Special Message from Prospect Writing Fellow Marcia Brown   Just a few days after graduating from college, I moved into a group home with roommates I found on Craigslist and started at the Prospect. Since then, I've traveled to Toronto, Canada, to report on asylum…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 25, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Sen. Ben Cardin on Boosting Small Business Support | The Unending First Wave

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  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 24, 2020 at 7:09 PM

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A Special Message from Prospect Editor Bob Kuttner   Trump and Racial Healing  Since co-founding the Prospect in 1989, I’ve witnessed two periods of great hope followed by great disappointment and worse. We cheered when Bill Clinton ended 12 years of Republican rule, but…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 24, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Another Reason for Massive State and Local Government Relief | More Case Spikes and Dodgy Statistics

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  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 23, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Today On TAP: Join The American Prospect

Preview A Special Message from Prospect Editor At Large Harold Meyerson   Today, instead of writing On TAP, I’m writing about TAP – that is, The American Prospect – and how you can help us do what we do.And we’ve been doing a lot lately. We’ve upped the frequency of our pr…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 23, 2020 at 4:05 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Whistling Past the Economic Graveyard | Case Spike Update | The Travel Coupon Idea

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 22, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Today On TAP: Join The American Prospect

A Special Message from Prospect Executive Editor David Dayen   Normally in this space you would be reading On Tap, observations and musings on the world from our senior editors Bob Kuttner and Harold Meyerson. It's part of our mission at the Prospect to bring you our unique…

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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]

June 22, 2020 at 4:12 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Why Deaths May Not Spike Despite Rising Cases | Why Rich People Aren’t Spending

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June 18, 2020 at 6:38 PM

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