Activists are building a political home for the Michigan Senate candidate’s anti-corruption, anti-war populist message.

In the second Trump administration, Democrats have been backing away from climate change messaging. Joe Biden apparently got no credit for the Inflation Reduction Act, his marquee climate policy bill, ...

Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.

In the heart of the Old South, compact majority-Black districts are being supplanted by elongated majority-white ones.

This article appears in the April 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. As an American political writer on the ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Vice President JD Vance appear together during a rally ahead of the Hungarian parliamentary election in Budapest, April 7, 2026. Credit: Beata ...

Just after 2:20 Friday morning, the Senate voted by unanimous consent to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, including TSA, for the remainder of this fiscal year through June. The ...

This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. As the World Cup takes up temporary residence in American cities this summer, FIFA has ...

A guidance the agency had relied on to justify hunting immigrants at court appointments does not apply, says the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. Federal agents detain a man at 26 ...

Striking nurses and supporters demonstrate outside NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, January 22, 2026. Credit: Seth Wenig/AP Photo MANHATTAN – New York City nurses began the fourth week of ...

Tuesday’s special election for a seat in the Florida legislature has generated way more coverage than anyone could have predicted. That’s because first-time Democratic candidate Emily Gregory defeated ...

Fifty years ago this week, folk singer Pete Seeger performed the controversial anti-war song “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour show on CBS television. The story of ...