In Maryland, a billionaire is trying to get his seat back from a mega-millionaire. It’s the epitome of a broken campaign finance system. Is there a way out?

Under cover of delivering rightful benefits to veterans, a new Republican-backed bill in Congress takes them away.

Americans realize they’ve lost power and income to the very rich. Too many Democrats, even too many unions, have yet to go to war for them.

Our former Prospect intern Jack Styler recently wrote a terrific piece in The Provincetown Independent revealing how a ...

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A proposed merger with Roku gives Fox access to 100 million households, widespread advertising opportunities, and the ability to diminish rivals on a leading TV platform.

The assault on the Democrats’ main fundraising platform is a partisan hatchet job, but ActBlue itself is far from blameless.

After demolishing Gov. Janet Mills in Maine’s Democratic primary, the political newbie confronts a major challenge running against the Senate’s longest-serving Republican woman.

It is worth noting that there are two publicly announced $120 million abundance grant funds, the Abundance and Growth Fund from Coefficient Giving (née Open Philanthropy) and Jennifer Pahlka’s ...

The case for having the government take co-ownership of AI—make that the cases for having the government take co-ownership of AI—grow louder. I had to pluralize “case” since President Trump’s ...

In today’s edition, we highlight an underdiscussed reason why damage from the war hasn’t eaten the U.S. economy: fiscal stimulus.

Pam Bondi’s old lobbying firm, Ballard Partners, pushed to move through a business travel merger. Bondi’s DOJ did it, in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny. As criticism intensified over a ...