When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it.
Anyway: fund basic research.
i unironically think this is part of the reason C&H rocks. kids’ art and literature *should* expose them to things they don’t understand! i know encountering that kind of too-advanced joke definitely inspired me to pull out the encyclopedia back in the day
Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.
I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.
Out in October with Random House.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS🚨
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania strikes down a law restricting Medicaid from funding abortion, and in doing so recognizes a "reproductive autonomy" as a fundamental right in the state constitution. www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...
To understand how we got to this point in the breakdown of separation of church and state — in which the Court requires funding of religious schools and then gives them special exemptions from rules that apply to all other schools — it helps to have some history:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work.
Pure hackery.
A question for American historians: were the Robber Barons of the 19th century as corrupt as the technofascist billionaires of the 21st century?
This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.
This painting, titled "L'escalier" (The Staircase), was created by French painter Marc Chalmé, known for his mastery of shadow and light, often compared to Vermeer. His work captures "still light" in landscapes, still lifes, and scenes like this.
Very big news: Minnesota prosecutors just charged a federal immigration agent with assault. It's not easy to bring state prosecutions against federal officers, but the law is clear that there's no absolute immunity from state prosecution. /1 statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
![Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is
unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17.
¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of
Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:inwzoq34u52clnzwfmmv4j3b/bafkreidt45gkkqkhg24folszm4hyzpnuoyoe3f6f3pmqpoiqtvf6lweexi)
Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination. Discrimination based on sex is expressly prohibited under Montana’s unique Nondiscrimination Clause––“[n]either the state nor any person, firm, corporation, or institution shall discriminate on account of . . . sex . . . .” Thus, Article II, Section 4 is unequivocal in its intolerance for discrimination based on sex. Because sex discrimination involves a fundamental right under Article II, the appropriate level of judicial review is strict scrutiny. Snetsinger, ¶ 17. ¶28 Being transgender is also a suspect class under the Equal Protection Clause of Article II, Section 4,––“[n]o person shall be denied equal protection of the law.”
MONTANA SUPREME COURT: “Transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination,” and is subject to strict scrutiny under the Montana Constitution.
"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?"
Political thriller limited series about the Bajoran resistance during the Cardassian occupation
The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.
Prime Minister Sanchez:
“.. Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.” 🇪🇸
Why?
Amit Forlit, who has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with running a so-called hacking-for-hire operation that targeted environmental groups, has been extradited from Britain to stand trial in New York. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/c...
Prospect.org homepage, now programmatic ad-free.
Starting today, @prospect.org has removed all programmatic ads, because we believe that respecting you as readers rather than monetizing your attention will earn trust. This is what the site looks like, with all space reserved for stories about ideas, politics and power. prospect.org/2026/04/06/w...
Today’s Canadian painting is “Anglican Church at Magnetawan” painted by AJ Casson in 1933.
Why haven't "titans of industry" served as "guardrails for our democracy" in the Trump era? Caitlin Legacki says it's because Democrats "alienated the business community through years of ideological warfare disguised as governance" (" How Democrats Lost Big Business," op-ed, Sept. 29). She blames my organization, suggesting that during the Biden years we "systematically criticized appointees with any corporate experience." Her argument implies perhaps more than she intended. Ms. Legacki confesses that corporate America favors making deals with a brazen authoritarian over democratic accountability. She claims that our success in limiting corporations' sway on the Biden administration was enough to incite businesses to board President Trump's tyrannical train. Yet if the business community was so readily nudged into support of what Ms. Legacki acknowledges to be a dangerous consolidation of power, how can it ever be considered trustworthy participants in a democracy?
@jeffhauser.bsky.social letter in WSJ a few months ago on big business going for Trump II
For several hours, confusion reigned.
For several hours, confusion reigned.
Thaddeus Stevens was born on this day in 1792.
A fierce, uncompromising opponent of slavery, he was a true American revolutionary.
That's home. That's us.
This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.
Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.
Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman
What about in the regular universe but abt the Bajoran underground during the Cardassian occupation?
John Harris
BRAZIL makes you feel that no rational understanding of the world is possible—that all we have is what T.S. Eliot called "a heap of broken images." (1986)
3/3 I suspect a path to reconciling these two positions can be found in Dani Rodrik's latest book drodrik.scholars.harvard.edu/shared-prosp... where he makes the case for thin globalization that allows for national policy divergences within a minimal framework for global public goods.
"Israel" doesn't start with a J.
If American-born children are not U.S. citizens, where would we deport them? Do Stephen Miller et. al. actually want to deport them? I suspect not.
The Trump project has never been about deportation but about keeping noncitizens working for "real Americans."
washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/30/b...
Nicely done. I would add that the work of these scholars also makes it easier to delegitimize the Court--a happy outcome from Moyn's perspective--should it choose lawlessness in this case.
