Next week, the Federal Open Market Committee will assemble to determine the future direction of interest rates. Analysts expect the Fed to lower the rate by another quarter-point, after a ...

This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. Washington, D.C., has a higher median income than any state in the union, and yet I never ...

As Trump makes racist attacks on Somali immigrants, media giants CBS, Fox, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times parrot claims from a weaponized DOJ and self-interested players. In recent ...

How to regulate artificial intelligence is becoming a major public issue. One set of questions involves national security. Will AI companies be allowed to do business with, and in, China at their ...

The short-term political boost to the Argentine president’s fortunes is unlikely to continue, as the familiar cycle of crisis and default looms. Argentine President Javier Milei arrives for the ...

While we haven’t exactly been surprised by the outright corruption of the first year of the second Trump administration, the gutting of the federal executive and the cowardly acquiescence by political ...

Experts say its military spending isn’t grounded in strategy, would line the pockets of defense corporations, and would redirect the military to domestic deportations. President Trump’s spending bill ...

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani attends a rally organized by Israelis for Peace on the second anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel, in Union Square in Manhattan, ...

Last week, I wrote about how state attorneys general were beginning to find their sea legs amid the effective closure of the federal Justice Department on issues of corporate power. The next day, the ...

The statute governing utility acquisitions in New Mexico is unmistakably clear: stock of a utility or utility holding company may only be acquired “with the prior express authorization” of the New ...

President Trump stands ready to expand his war against Iran, but the numbers already show how unpopular it is. Six out of ten Americans disapprove of U.S. military action against Iran, according to a ...

Pro-Puerto Rico activists protest outside the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, October 21, 2019, demanding that MoMA remove trustee Steven Tananbaum, whose firm owned a large amount of Puerto ...