This article appears in the June 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. Despite what Republicans and some ...

We face potential unemployment on par with the Great Depression. We need a mass employment program to get through it. AI can pay for it. Businesses justify their huge investments in AI by committing ...

This story was first featured in the Aftermath newsletter, a series from David Dayen exploring the economic consequences of the war in Iran. To have these stories delivered to your in-box as soon as ...

Suing slush fund recipients under the False Claims Act could claw back their payments, plus three times as much in damages.

Today’s example is student loans. The program is thoroughly enshittified, byzantine in its complexity, and a source of punitive debt for the young. According to the Department of Education, less than ...

Flock Safety allows police departments and immigration officials to search a nationwide database of license plate data captured by its cameras. Credit: Stephen Zenner/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP ...

ICE agents guard the Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against the transfer of detainees, May 26, 2026, in ...

With the federal government largely stepping back from antitrust enforcement, who’s picking up the slack? California Attorney General Rob Bonta makes the case that state attorneys general are filling ...

Stephen Miller is in large part dictating U.S. foreign policy, with a mindset of unilateral violence on a maximum scale.

There was once a time when our politicians reckoned with moral crises, and the moment appears ripe for a return to it. Murphy describes this not just in economic terms but as a spiritual crisis. I ...

For years, both Uber and Lyft have insisted that their drivers are not their employees, but rather, independent contractors ...

A comprehensive housing bill supported by both parties and the White House inched closer to passage last week. But never doubt the power of the private equity and banking industries and their ...