Our veterans affairs reporter looks back on the year.

Rather than tell his fellow New Yorkers to lower their expectations of what government could do, the city’s new mayor vowed that “the only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.” ...

Silicon Valley has pioneered lawbreaking like never before, turning illegal ventures into untold billions. Elon Musk helped Donald Trump bring this same approach to Washington. Discussion of AI often ...

Published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On Friday, November 21, as most Americans were prepping for ...

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Our John Lewis Writing Fellow shares her favorite stories of the year.

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Overview: Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a ...

We started the year at the Prospect trying to figure out how to cover a regime out for vengeance and dismissive of the law. My contribution was to try and cover what those in power were aiming to do, ...

Canada was once one of America’s closest allies. But today, that partnership is Exhibit A in America’s global tariff war. The Trump administration has discarded Canada like so many old, worn-down ...

Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.

First came the shock treatment administered by DOGE, which dispatched teenage sociopaths to hack into the Treasury Department’s payment systems and stop payment to anything deemed “woke,” change the ...