Robert Kuttner
American Prospect
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Past articles by Robert:
Health System Parasites: Example No. 452
Today on TAP: Middleman companies contract with insurers to find someone else to pay medical costs. → Read More
Excessive Bank Overdraft Charges Demand Regulation
Today on TAP: It’s another vivid case of the junk fees that Biden has begun to challenge. → Read More
Combining Decarbonization, Good Jobs, and Climate Justice
Illinois shows what’s possible. Will Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo be an ally? → Read More
The Wildly Misleading Inflation Numbers
Today on TAP: The Consumer Price Index gets the story of housing costs backwards. → Read More
Julie Su as Labor Secretary Is a Three-Fer
Today on TAP: She opens space for Biden to name someone better than Lael Brainard to head the NEC. → Read More
The African American Studies AP Debacle
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The Economy Is Doing Great
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Reclaiming U.S. Industry
Biden’s industrial policies represent a stunning ideological reversal. The harder part will be making them work. → Read More
Is Kevin McCarthy’s Secret Weapon Joe Biden?
Today on TAP: Biden has a history of needlessly capitulating to Republicans in budget negotiations. His new chief of staff, Jeff Zients, is even worse. → Read More
Will Biden Save Israel From Its Worst Instincts?
Today on TAP: The U.S. has only days to act before Netanyahu destroys the Israeli High Court. → Read More
When Global Trade Bureaucrats Earn Our Contempt
Today on TAP: A panel ruling undermines the USMCA agreement on North American content. Biden should ignore it. → Read More
Turning the Debt Ceiling Crisis Against McCarthy’s Republicans
Biden needs to play serious hardball, or he will get rolled. → Read More
Celebrating Dr. King’s Embrace of Multiracial Justice
We need coalitions of conscience now more than ever. → Read More
Slime-on-a-Rock Cuisine and Social Democracy
Today on TAP: Noma, the world’s most pretentious restaurant, in Copenhagen of all places, to close. → Read More
McCarthy vs. Moderate House Republicans
The schisms will only widen as McCarthy tries to carry out his deal with the crazies. → Read More
The Labor Market and the Soft Landing
Today on TAP: The economy is on track to avert a recession, unless the Fed creates one. → Read More
Disney for Dictators
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Who Will Talk Jay Powell off the Ledge?
He has committed the Fed to an interest rate course that will create a needless recession, and he refuses to admit that inflation is subsiding on its own. → Read More
Best of 2022: Robert Kuttner
The Prospect’s co-founder and co-editor offers his favorite stories of the year. → Read More
Could Democrats Really Elect a Moderate Republican Speaker?
Today on TAP: It’s a long shot, but not out of the question. → Read More