Activists are building a political home for the Michigan Senate candidate’s anti-corruption, anti-war populist message.

How a group of rank-and-file retirees in Connecticut successfully organized to restore their right to traditional public Medicare ...

In the second Trump administration, Democrats have been backing away from climate change messaging. Joe Biden apparently got no credit for the Inflation Reduction Act, his marquee climate policy bill, ...

Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.

Much of Mamdani’s agenda will live or die in Albany. Credit: Photo illustration by New York Focus. Sources: Bill Badzo/Flickr; Dmitri Shein/Wikimedia Commons. This story originally appeared in New ...

Today on TAP: What will it take to preserve a great newspaper in the nation’s capital, and to sustain independent daily journalism generally? The Post lost about $77 million in 2023, another $100 ...

The 42 million Americans who rely on nutrition assistance are in danger of going without benefits to help them afford food if the government shutdown drags on after November 1. But that’s not because ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. The federal contracting system has long been ...

A woman stands before a flower tribute at Bondi Beach, December 16, 2025, following Sunday’s mass shooting in Sydney, Australia. Credit: Mark Baker/AP Photo Back in 1996, Australia suffered what was ...

Earlier today, we learned that despite President Trump’s tariffs, the rationale for which is that they’ll limit imports and boost domestic production and exports, the nation’s trade deficit in goods ...

One of the constants of American history is that greed tends to flow south—to the American South, that is. Since the days of slavery, work has been exploited, devalued, and dishonored there, while ...

This article appears in the April 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Randall Kennedy is one of our most eminent scholars of race and the Constitution. He holds the Michael R ...