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This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please

The news on green technology is surprisingly good. Both development and installation of renewable energy and industry are leaping ahead at rates I would not have thought remotely possible even five years ago. It’s the fastest energy transition in history—and ironically the pace has only accelerated of late thanks to Donald Trump’s madcap war on Iran, which is acting as a de ...

Activists, faith leaders, and other community members packed the England Airpark Authority Board meeting in Alexandria, Louisiana last Thursday, so many that they spilled into two overflow rooms. They urged the board members to cancel a contract for a 528-bed detention camp planned for women and children at nearby abandoned military barracks, a Trump immigration detention ca...

The president of Yale, Maurie McInnis, got caught trying to make a deal with the Trump administration to change its admission procedures as a way to settle an administration investigation of Yale and the threat of sanctions. The administration contended that Yale favored Black and Hispanic applicants.

But instead of a deal, the secret negotiations have produced mas...

This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please