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New organizing groups agitate for a healthy share of resources to rebuild the Democratic image in left-behind communities.
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### [Cold War Kids](https://prospect.org/culture/2025-03-21-cold-war-kids-severance-apple/)
Apple’s hit show Severance was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
Mar 21, 2025
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### [The Varied Strains of Democrats](https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-20-varied-strains-of-democrats/)
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Mar 20, 2025
[Harold Meyerson](https://prospect.org/topics/harold-meyerson/)
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### [Washington on the Brink](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-20-washington-on-the-brink/)
With its city’s future in the balance, the District of Columbia watches and waits on the House.
Mar 20, 2025
[Gabrielle Gurley](https://prospect.org/topics/gabrielle-gurley/)
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### [Move Fast and Break the Mortgage Market](https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-20-move-fast-break-mortgage-market-fannie-freddie/)
The chief regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is now also the board chair of both companies. What’s the long game here?
Mar 20, 2025
[David Dayen](https://prospect.org/topics/david-dayen/)
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### [Trump’s Plan to Dismantle Education Department Threatens Classroom Funding](https://prospect.org/education/2025-03-20-trumps-plan-dismantle-education-department-threatens-classroom-funding/)
Federal cuts would hurt students with disabilities, English learners and poor districts the most.
Mar 20, 2025
[Kalena Thomhave](https://prospect.org/topics/kalena-thomhave/)
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### [The Onion of Kensington](https://prospect.org/health/2025-02-03-onion-of-kensington-fentanyl-philadelphia/)
The American dream collides with tragedy in a historic, largely immigrant community in Philadelphia that’s one of the epicenters of the nation’s fentanyl crisis.
[Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera](https://prospect.org/topics/guadalupe-correa-cabrera/), [Sergio Chapa](https://prospect.org/topics/sergio-chapa/)
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### [Conservatives Have Big Plans for D.C. Public Schools](https://prospect.org/education/2025-02-04-conservatives-have-big-plans-dc-public-schools/)
Making vouchers universal in D.C. would be universally unpopular, but there’s nothing to stop the GOP.
[Hassan Ali Kanu](https://prospect.org/topics/hassan-ali-kanu/)
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### [Will the Courts Enforce the Constitution Against President Trump?](https://prospect.org/justice/2025-01-22-will-courts-enforce-constitution-against-president-trump/)
If they don’t, the checks and balances that have defined our government since its inception will give way to one-man authoritarian rule.
[Erwin Chemerinsky](https://prospect.org/topics/erwin-chemerinsky/)
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### [Fascism’s Feeble Firebreaks](https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-19-fascisms-feeble-firebreaks/)
Today on TAP: How will Trump’s madness be contained? Three sources of pushback are traditional conservatives, courts, and Republicans in Congress. So far, none are all that reassuring.
[Robert Kuttner](https://prospect.org/topics/robert-kuttner/)
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### [The Government Funding Law Damages the Legal Pushback on Trump](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-19-government-funding-law-damages-legal-pushback-on-trump/)
Here’s why Chuck Schumer’s cave-in was beneficial to Trump’s legally shaky slashing of spending and the federal workforce.
[David Dayen](https://prospect.org/topics/david-dayen/)
* [](https://prospect.org/environment/2025-03-19-doge-is-going-to-kill-a-lot-of-americans/)
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### [DOGE Is Going to Kill a Lot of Americans](https://prospect.org/environment/2025-03-19-doge-is-going-to-kill-a-lot-of-americans/)
The Democratic Party could spell this out clearly and consistently for voters.
[Kenny Stancil](https://prospect.org/topics/kenny-stancil/)
* [](https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-18-trump-tries-to-fire-lina-khan-lieutenants-ftc-alvaro-bedoya-rebecca-kelly-slaughter/)
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### [Trump Tries to Fire Lina Khan’s Lieutenants at the FTC](https://prospect.org/power/2025-03-18-trump-tries-to-fire-lina-khan-lieutenants-ftc-alvaro-bedoya-rebecca-kelly-slaughter/)
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya have been illegally terminated. It’s a bid to centralize executive power.
[David Dayen](https://prospect.org/topics/david-dayen/)
* [](https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-18-what-did-you-do-anti-trump-war/)
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### [What Did You Do in the Anti-Trump War, Daddy and Mama?](https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-18-what-did-you-do-anti-trump-war/)
Today on TAP: The outrage at Schumer personifies a much larger sense of anger and frustration.
[Harold Meyerson](https://prospect.org/topics/harold-meyerson/)
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### [A Hospital Empire Is Closing Its Doors—but the Stock Is on a Tear](https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-18-hospital-empire-closing-its-doors-stock-on-a-tear-mpt/)
More than a dozen hospitals employing tens of thousands have either shut this year or are on the brink, while two shadowy figures prop up their owners’ stock.
[Maureen Tkacik](https://prospect.org/topics/maureen-tkacik/), [Teri Buhl](https://prospect.org/topics/teri-buhl/)
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### [Burning Down the House](https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-18-burning-down-the-house/)
What ties together all of Trump’s moves is personal vindictiveness and a fragile ego. At what point does reality or Republican pushback intrude?
[Robert Kuttner](https://prospect.org/topics/robert-kuttner/)
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