Washington, D.C. — Today, President Joe Biden announced 19 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In response, Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, issued ...

Washington, D.C. — To mark the fourth anniversary of the January 6 insurrection, Patrick Gaspard, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress, released the following statement: ...

CAP Senior Fellow Michael Podhorzer will present on the impacts of judicial rulings on American democracy.

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In an op-ed published by Salon, Kate Kelly and celebrity co-author Alyssa Milano urge President Biden to finalize the Equal Rights Amendment during his last days in office. In an interview with ...

Smart tariffs are an important part of industrial policy, but Trump’s tariff agenda is ill-conceived, self-defeating, and harmful to workers. Commercial freight trucks line up to cross into the ...

We must continue to invest in research, technology, and innovation in a manner that ensures participation and benefits communities that are too often left behind. Only through such an approach can ...

The U.S. economy has achieved staggering growth over the past several decades, with the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita growing 115 percent from 1979 to 2024. 6 The post-pandemic period ...

Multiple federal agencies manage 622 million acres of public lands, which make up 27 percent of the United States’ land area 31 and 48 percent of the land area of the 11 Western states. 32 ...

Featuring historians and experts on the global rise of authoritarianism, this panel will discuss parallels to the fall of democracy around the world and the actions of the current U.S. Supreme Court.

Featuring leading legal scholars, this panel will address the current role of U.S. courts in advancing domestic antidemocratic movements and backsliding democracy.

The COVID-19 pandemic and increasing intensity of extreme weather conditions and natural disasters have exposed the many inequities and weaknesses in the United States’ public health infrastructure.