The Brazilian presidential election was close until Lula demanded that workers get a full weekend. A financial scandal has also sunk his opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro.

It’s a bizarre development. There has never been a better time to make the correct argument that slashing the use of fossil fuels, and hence carbon emissions, is the best thing to do for affordability ...

To get the job, Warsh made all manner of tacit commitments to President Trump on lowering interest rates. But it took about a ...

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

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

In the course of my roughly three-quarters-of-a-century-long life, I’ve lived in just three cities: Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C. By year’s end, there’s a decent chance that all three of ...

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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?

The domestic return of the New World screwworm, a parasite that can devastate cattle herds, happened while the Trump ...

By loaning his gubernatorial campaign $1 million, the Colorado senator can ask special-interest donors to personally repay the loan, while he serves as an elected official.

Juneteenth over the years came to be celebrated by many Black communities in churches and at family gatherings across the country. A decade ago, Opal Lee, a Texas-based civil rights activist, began ...

Guardrails Alliance has already raised $5 million and yesterday launched its first ad buys for New York state Rep. Alex Bores, who is running to replace longtime Rep. Jerry Nadler.