After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes. Late last year, ...

This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. The realities of sports, just like the realities of our politics and our economy, can seem ...

Tens of thousands of people have been subjected to the cruel policy, but the Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” could soon bring it back.

The wokest rapper took on the NFL’s plutocratic ownership, the Israel lobby, and the Live Nation ‘flywheel’—and won.

This is why Congress should develop in-house science whizzes before throwing the federal government’s weight at whatever the businessmen say they’d like. Whether it’s drawing up new regulation, or ...

Volunteers pack boxes of food for distribution, at the Capital Area Food Bank, September 11, 2026, in Washington. Credit: Rahmat Gul/AP Photo. Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for ...

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 ...

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The Democratic base and working-class swing voters want action on the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid and the expanded monthly Child Tax Credit.

Many of the industries set to take center stage in the highly lucrative data center build-out could now be seen as small businesses, regardless of their revenue. Credit: Gerville/iStock. Read the top ...

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has legions of U.S. fans, because of his most un-Canadian moxie in standing up to President Trump. In his latest move, Carney has even enlisted the EU to invent an ...