COVID-19 Opportunism and Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda
Exemplifying why she was nominated to the position, Betsy DeVos has capitalized on COVID-19 emergency measures to expedite her long-standing goal of dismantling public education.
To understand how the Right builds support by “mobilizing resentment,” it’s worth examining how an obscure libertarian group was able to get the usually complacent voters of Baltimore County to rally to illegally redline Section 8 voucher holders out of t
Q&A with the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots
A new book by Yale University American studies professor Daniel HoSang and University of Oregon political science professor Joseph Lowndes, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, offers a framework for interpret
How the Pioneer Institute Co-opts the Concept of Social Justice
This report demonstrates how three of the Pioneer Institute’s leading claims that their education reforms create greater equity in schools are not only unfounded but that these reforms disproportionately harm communities of color & immigrant communities.
LIBRE’s Quest to Deliver the Latinx Powerhouse to the Right
LIBRE’s overarching goal is twofold: to convince Latinxs that laissez-faire capitalism will empower them and to draw the “sleeping giant” of American electoral politics to the Right.
It’s not by chance that the U.S. is full of hollowed-out urban centers. Residents are disproportionately poor and people of color, surrounded by wealthier and Whiter suburbs. It traces back to the Great Migration, which brought great numbers of African Am
Since PRA’s 2016 report on Massachusetts’ most notable conservative think tank, the Pioneer Institute has taken on public sector unions not just in Massachusetts but across the entire country.
The ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency has dramatically worsened an already grave set of challenges confronting justice-minded people, and has presented the women’s movement in the United States…
