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 ...

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.

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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.

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

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 ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani waves during an address marking his first hundred days in office, April 12, 2026, at the Knockdown Center in New York. Credit: Andres Kudacki/AP Photo Six months ...