The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas. From Executive Editor David Dayen comes the cover story for this month’s edition of The American Prospect’s bimonthly magazine: a profile of Greg Casar, a second-term congressmember from Texas and head of the Progressive Caucus who has a strategy not just for the caucus, but for how Democrats can win the next two elections and deliver for the country.

Trump’s “free” gift from Qatar, a new Air Force One that he keeps after leaving office, is absorbing a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded upgrades. Robert Kuttner, Prospect co-founder and co-editor, on Trump’s maneuvers to hide the expenses associated with upgrading the supposedly free plane that’s actually costing taxpayers nearly $1 billion. 

Pandemic revisionists claim that Sweden proves lockdowns in the early pandemic days were ineffective. It’s utter nonsense, argues Senior Editor Ryan Cooper, who examines the factors in Sweden and elsewhere in Europe to demonstrate how this contrarian argument is full of holes.