Under Donald Trump, the party hasn’t just reversed its positions on specific policies. It has routinely betrayed basic tenets of the conservative philosophy that Republicans have long claimed was the ...

On Tuesday, March 17th, a mentally ill veteran shot a social worker at a Jasper, Georgia, outpatient clinic run by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The veteran was shot and killed by law ...

An estimate of a new wealth tax proposal shows that it would generate twice as much revenue as it did when it was first introduced in 2021.

Tuesday’s special election for a seat in the Florida legislature has generated way more coverage than anyone could have ...

In my last article, I discussed how the Trump administration is paying a French energy company, TotalEnergies, a billion ...

Agents never had permission to hunt immigrants at court appointments, says the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. If you watched a minute of college football this fall, you saw the ads. A voice-over darkly ...

Everything would be funded except ICE enforcement, and some reforms added, while Republicans would try a long-shot reconciliation bill for ICE money afterward.

This understanding of working-class discontent will explain why just a fraction of these defectors are now voting Democratic. The image of the Democratic Party is worse than the Republican Party, ...

Even users don’t like it. So when you ask juries to render verdicts, they’re inclined to punish the platforms.

Massachusetts’ millionaire surcharge has been in place since 2023, California may be voting to tax billionaires this fall, and at least a half-dozen other states are actively considering ways to ...

Everything from interminable lines to near-miss collisions and controller burnout predates Trump. It’s a metaphor for the long-term neglect of public systems.