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  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 17, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Corporations Can Do a Lot With ‘Just Loans’

David Dayen’s update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 17, 2020 Corporations Can Do a Lot With ‘Just Loans’Surprisingly, companies with market power can use money to make money   …
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 16, 2020 at 7:35 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Election Night Could Be Smoother for Senate Races

  View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 16, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Election Night Could Be Smoother for Senate Races The disaster scenarios for voter suppression and Election Day sabotage leave out one piece of hopefu…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 16, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The Fed Is Overpaying for Corporate Bonds | Problem Solvers Step Up with DOA Bill

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 16, 2020 The Fed Is Overpaying Banks and Hedge Funds for Corporate BondsPlus, the Problem Solvers step up with a dead-on-arrival bill…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 15, 2020 at 8:25 PM

Meyerson on TAP: A Rorschach Test for Establishment Liberalism

View this email in your browser   SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 Meyerson on TAP A Rorschach Test for Establishment Liberalism Here’s one good way to assess the state of establishment liberalism: Compare the New York Times’ 1619 Proj…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 15, 2020 at 4:04 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Appeals Court Ruling Could Trigger Mass Deportation

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 15, 2020 Appeals Court Ruling Could Trigger Mass Deportation The Trump administration can go forward on revoking temporary protected s…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 14, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Lost Health Insurance Should Be a Front-Page Political Issue

  View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Lost Health Insurance Should Be a Front-Page Political Issue According to the Economic Policy Institute, upward of six million workers have lost employe…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 14, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The Second Wave is Building | Postal Service Sends Inaccurate Mailer

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 14, 2020 The Building of the Second WavePlus, an inaccurate mailer from the Postal Service   A band sit…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 11, 2020 at 7:02 PM

Kuttner on TAP: The Attacks of 9/11 and Donald Trump

  View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 Kuttner on TAP The Attacks of 9/11 and Donald Trump The anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, is a potent reminder of the costs of a president dwelling in hi…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 11, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The Bid to Pierce the Bubble Economy

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 11, 2020 The Bid to Pierce the Bubble Economy One organizer is using direct action to confront the runaway inequality of the pandemic …
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 10, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Trump’s Lies Were Transparent | Senate GOP Plays Model Congress

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 10, 2020 Trump’s Lies On COVID Were Pretty Transparent Plus, Senate Republicans play model Congress   All…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 9, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: What Leverage Do Progressives Have on Biden?

  View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 Kuttner on TAP What Leverage Do Progressives Have on Biden? A Washington Post story earlier this week seemed to confirm progressives’ worst suspicions about Joe Biden. T…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 9, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Vaccine Stumble Shows Downside of Rushing the Process | Servicemembers in the Payroll Tax Squeeze

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 9, 2020 Vaccine Stumble in Britain Demonstrates Impossibility of Rushing the Process Plus, putting servicemembers in the payroll tax squee…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 8, 2020 at 4:11 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Grad Student Strike at Michigan | DeJoy in Campaign Finance Trouble

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 8, 2020 Grad Student Strike at Michigan is the First Pandemic Pushback on Campus Plus, Louis DeJoy is in campaign finance trouble …
  Ellen J. Meany, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 7, 2020 at 11:48 AM

Happy Labor Day!

Preview A Labor Day Weekend message from the Prospect View this email in your browser Happy Labor Day! Today, we invite you to check our Working in America section for a slate of stories about the state of labor across the country right now. And, yes, please support th…
  Ellen J. Meany, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 6, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Brush up on your labor history, and support the Prospect!

A Labor Day Weekend message from the Prospect View this email in your browser EMANUEL WALLACE   50 Years of Union Busting in Cleveland Prospect Writing Fellow Marsha Brown reports on the end of union representation at the Plain Dealer, Cle…
  Ellen J. Meany, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 5, 2020 at 7:10 PM

What is the Future of Labor in Post-Pandemic America?

Preview A Labor Day Weekend message from the Prospect View this email in your browser JANDOS ROTHSTEIN   The Future of Labor in Post-Pandemic America The pandemic has exposed the stratospheric levels of economic inequality in this country…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 4, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: The Greatest Generation and the Pandemic Generation

  View this email in your browser SEPTEMBER 4, 2020 Kuttner on TAP The Greatest Generation and the Pandemic Generation In World War II, exactly 405,399 American GIs were killed. Another 670,846 were wounded—over a million c…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 4, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | GOP Works on the Least They Can Possibly Do | Vaccine Politicization

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 4, 2020 Republicans Working on the Least They Can Possibly Do Plus, the politicization of vaccines   Sen. Te…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 3, 2020 at 7:16 PM

Meyerson on TAP: California Falls Flat

Preview View this email in your browser   SEPTEMBER 3, 2020 Meyerson on TAP California Falls Flat Nearly 60 years ago, when Jesse Unruh became Speaker of the California Assembly, the state’s legislature became a model for legi…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 3, 2020 at 4:07 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The State of the Virus | Change to Jobless Numbers Masks Escalating Damage

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 3, 2020 The State of the Virus Plus, change to jobless numbers masks escalating damage   Signs welcome reside…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 2, 2020 at 4:04 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Federal “Eviction Moratorium” Is a Leaky Boat | Payroll Tax Deferral Begins

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 2, 2020 Federal “Eviction Moratorium” Is a Leaky Boat Plus, the payroll tax deferral begins   All evictions w…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 1, 2020 at 8:08 PM

Meyerson on TAP: Trump: Campaigning, or Crossing State Lines to Incite a Riot?

View this email in your browser   SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 Meyerson on TAP Trump: Campaigning, or Crossing State Lines to Incite a Riot? Donald Trump’s visit to Kenosha today will pour more oil than water on the fires of fear and loa…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
September 1, 2020 at 4:16 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | The Rent Crisis, from Pennsylvania to California

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Sept. 1, 2020 An Ominous First of the Month The rent crisis, from Pennsylvania to California   Tenant groups protes…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 31, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Defining the Meaning of Violence

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 31, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Defining the Meaning of Violence The election could well turn on which candidate does a more compelling job of defining the nature of the violence now plaguing c…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 28, 2020 at 4:03 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Republicans, Day Four | Your Questions Answered!

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 28, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Republicans, Day Four Your Questions Answered! Question: Why did President Trump’s handlers give him …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 27, 2020 at 4:02 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Republicans, Day Three | Chicago, 1968; Pandemic, Kenosha, and the Hurricane, 2020

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 27, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Republicans, Day Three Chicago, 1968; Pandemic, Kenosha, and the Hurricane, 2020 Like battleships, con…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 26, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Trump: Crazy Like a Rabid Fox

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 26, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Trump: Crazy Like a Rabid Fox You probably rolled your eyes when you read that Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at BLM protesters …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 26, 2020 at 4:04 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Republicans, Day Two | The Melania Mystery, the Kudlow Confusion, and the Two-Track Convention

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 26, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Republicans, Day Two The Melania Mystery, the Kudlow Confusion, and the Two-Track Convention Donald Tru…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 25, 2020 at 4:04 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Republicans, Night One | Even Diversity Night Was Nutcase Right

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 25, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Republicans, Night One Even Diversity Night Was Nutcase Right Every Republican convention of the past ha…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 24, 2020 at 8:50 PM

Building the People's Banks with David Dayen | Weds, Aug 26, 8 pm eastern

Join Dissent Magazine for this Special Event View this email in your browser A Chat About Postal Banking...     Join Dissent Magazine for a virtual discussion with David Dayen, Courtney "CJ" Jenkins, Melissa Rakestraw, and Flynn Murray…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 24, 2020 at 5:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Fiscal Follies in the Biden Campaign

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 24, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Fiscal Follies in the Biden Campaign Joe Biden has heartened progressives with his calls for levels of public spending, well into the trillions, equal to the urgent…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 24, 2020 at 4:03 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | This Disaster is Hurting Response to Other Disasters | Will There Be A Relief Bill?

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Aug. 24, 2020 COVID Disaster Hurting Response to Other Disasters Plus, will there be a relief bill?   Mike Barthole…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 21, 2020 at 7:02 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Will Pelosi Get Rolled on the Relief Bill?

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 21, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Will Pelosi Get Rolled on the Relief Bill? Speaker Pelosi has called the House back into session Saturday to vote on the Maloney bill that would roll back perverse …
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 20, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Dayen on TAP: The Latest in a Long Line of Republican Con Artists

The Latest from the Prospect View this email in your browser   AUGUST 20, 2020 Dayen on TAP The Latest in a Long Line of Republican Con Artists Author and historian Rick Perlstein (who’s doing a Prospect Zoom event with me …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 20, 2020 at 4:15 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Democrats, Day Three | Obama Delivers His Gettysburg Address

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 20, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Democrats, Day Three Obama Delivers His Gettysburg Address Donald Trump reportedly considered giving his ac…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 19, 2020 at 7:16 PM

Kuttner on TAP: More About That Boston Globe Endorsement

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 19, 2020 Kuttner on TAP More About That Boston Globe Endorsement In my previous On Tap post, I took a potshot at The Boston Globe for endorsing Jake Auchincloss, the most conservative Democ…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 19, 2020 at 4:18 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Democrats, Day Two

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 19, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Democrats, Day Two If the first night of this year’s Democratic National Sort-Of Convention was all about Donald Trum…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 19, 2020 at 1:03 PM

Reaganland and the Rise of the New Right | Mon, Aug 24, noon eastern

David Dayen in conversation with Rick Perlstein   Reaganland and the Rise of the New Right You're invited to join us for a Prospect virtual event... Monday, August 24, Noon Eastern Over two decades (and more than three …
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 18, 2020 at 7:02 PM

Dayen on TAP: Treasury’s Role in the Postal Sabotage

The Latest from the Prospect View this email in your browser   AUGUST 18, 2020 Dayen on TAP Treasury’s Role in the Postal Sabotage After the House and Senate scheduled hearings with Postmaster General (and frequent donor to …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 18, 2020 at 4:04 PM

UNCONVENTIONAL: The Democrats, Day One

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 18, 2020 Harold Meyerson’s National Convention Report Unconventional: The Democrats, Day One On the opening Monday of a normal political convention, a passel of local officials welcome the de…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 17, 2020 at 4:11 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Political Tide Begins to Turn in Postal Service Crisis | The History of an Agency Attacked From the Outside, and Now the Inside

David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Aug. 17, 2020 Political Tide Begins to Turn in Postal Service Crisis Plus, the history of an agency attacked from the outside, and now the inside …
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 14, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Return to Sender

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 14, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Return to Sender Trump’s statement on Fox News that he is deliberately starving the Postal Service in order to thwart vote-by-mail efforts that might help Democrats …
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 14, 2020 at 4:17 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Doing the Math on the Postal Service Hustle | Don’t Pass the RESTAURANTS Act

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Aug. 14, 2020 Doing the Math on the Postal Service HustlePlus, don’t pass the RESTAURANTS Act   The USPS handles much …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 13, 2020 at 8:00 PM

Meyerson on TAP: CEOs: Stakeholders, Shmakeholders

View this email in your browser   AUGUST 13, 2020 Meyerson on TAP CEOs: Stakeholders, Shmakeholders Back in 2019, when 181 corporate CEOs signed the Business Roundtable’s pledge to not maximize shareholder value quite so much i…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 13, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | Fed Can Still Save State and Local Governments | More Postal Turmoil

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Aug. 13, 2020 The Fed Can Still Save State and Local GovernmentsPlus, more postal turmoil   Forget about road construct…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 12, 2020 at 7:02 PM

Kuttner on TAP: Kamala, Joe, and Wall Street

  View this email in your browser AUGUST 12, 2020 Kuttner on TAP Kamala, Joe, and Wall Street There was immense cheering among voters of color, environmentalists, and activists for racial justice when Joe Biden let the world know …
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 12, 2020 at 4:04 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | A Modest Proposal: It’s Time to Sue Every Corporation to Prevent a Depression | How Big Media Rips Off Competitors

David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 View this email in your browser Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Aug. 12, 2020 A Modest Proposal: It’s Time to Sue Every Corporation to Prevent a DepressionPlus, how Big Media rips off its competitors   …
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 12, 2020 at 11:43 AM

Democracy: A Transformative Agenda | Mon, Aug 17, 1 pm eastern

Robert Kuttner in conversation with Vanderbilt Law School Professor Ganesh Sitaraman discussing the decline of the neoliberal era and the hopes for restoring The Great Democracy   Democracy: A Transformative Agenda You're invited to join us for a Prospect vi…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 11, 2020 at 8:58 PM

Meyerson on TAP: Trump’s Modesty

  AUGUST 11, 2020 Meyerson on TAP Trump’s Modesty We already know what a complete scam President Trump’s announcement of his initiatives to provide financial aid through the next pandemic months truly is. To cite just one scammish particu…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
August 11, 2020 at 4:02 PM

Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Daily Report | More Evidence USPS Means to Make Voting Harder

Preview David Dayen's update on the effects of COVID-19 Unsanitized: The COVID-19 Report for Aug. 11, 2020 More Evidence USPS Means to Make Voting HarderLetter encourages states to pay more to get ballots to voters   Postal workers load up trucks in…