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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

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

We can confront climate reality or be run over by it. prospect.org?p=141540

The first people to be locked up inside the detention prison will likely be children and pregnant people already in custody—two groups uniquely vulnerable in Trump’s immigration terror campaign.  prospect.org?p=141508

Instead of a deal, the secret negotiations have produced massive protests by faculty, students, and alums, including several alums in the Connecticut legislature. prospect.org?p=141514

He didn’t want a solo executive but rather something of a committee. While many of the Founders feared what might happen if you gave the people too much power, Paine (like Franklin) did not.

Paine wanted a government that was more representative than the one we have today. He didn’t want anything like the Senate or the Electoral College, which might act as bulwarks against popular majorities and the will of the people. He wanted judges to be elected by the public.

Thomas Paine is the revolutionary with a personal integrity closest to the democratic impulses embedded in the founding documents. buff.ly/UwrkR9l

You will learn about journalists who chronicled the horrors of racial supremacy and the predations of great combinations of industry. (You’re surprised we foregrounded journalists? We’re a magazine; cut us some slack.)

The past—and the present—informs what is possible in America, despite its mistakes, despite its trespasses, despite its cruelties. In a never-ending struggle for the interests of the many over the few, we can choose the side of those who took up the challenge.

And we must not surrender it to those men of privilege who would twist it into something indecipherable, in the name of putting down rebellions to their authority.

Power has been defeated in this nation, at the cost of personal comfort and fortune and lives—sometimes, lots of lives—by those who spoke for the people’s yearnings for freedom. We must remember our history because we are more equipped for future battles when we take history’s lessons.

In this series, you will read about the revolutionary with a personal integrity closest to the democratic impulses embedded in the founding documents. You will examine the avatar of the impossible movement to abolish slavery in these United States.

Our August issue celebrates Americans who challenged power, took risks, and made our country greater. We had one big rule: no elected officials. buff.ly/FZBKoV8

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American history is essentially about power: those with wealth and privilege climbing over one another to obtain it, and those without such advantages taking them on. prospect.org?p=141236