Under Zeldin’s leadership and Musk’s influence, an unlikely federal agency has become a key enabler of AI data centers.

State lawmakers have forbidden local police from participating in mass deportation. Some sheriffs think they are above the law.

Ahmed Soliman on the Brooklyn Bridge in 2019. Credit: Sources: Photo courtesy of Kate O’Donnell; Miltiadis Fragkidis/Unsplash. Ahmed Soliman, a 30-year-old gay immigrant from Egypt who had lived in ...

This article appears in the October 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. “You’re seeing a little bit of a ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. Just before the long Labor Day weekend, OpenAI made ...

People demonstrate against Missouri’s congressional redistricting plan, September 2, 2026, outside the State Capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri. Credit: David A. Lieb/AP Photo. For the second time, ...

It looks like the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, are unsympathetic to Trump’s schemes to steal the election.

A piece of Anthropic’s surveillance architecture was revealed in a podcast interview from last year between Anthropic Global Security Operations Center Manager Keon Ellison, Security Operations ...

Chris Gober, who helped draw Texas’s gerrymandered maps, is now running to represent one of those districts. His AI and defense industry ties could pose problems. As America PAC attorney, Chris Gober ...

The tariff-free importation of 300,000 metric tons of potentially substandard beef crashed cattle markets. Trump’s makeup plans to placate ranchers are lacking in substance.