This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. If there is a single book that put me on a path to becoming a journalist and writer, it is Cadillac ...

Contra again?

Up to 37,000 positions may be dropped, with the VA transformed into a facilitator for outsourcing, sources tell the Prospect.

A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent ...

One specific example involved Food Lion, a regional chain with over 1,000 stores. It was punished for being the “worst ...

Along with my On TAP comrade Harold Meyerson, I prize wordplay and puns. My favorite title in 2025 was a two-fer, for this piece about the plane that Qatar gave Trump: “Air Farce One: When Gift ...

These are the people on my mind heading into the winter holidays amid the regime’s ongoing immigration terror campaign, and whose stories and situations I want to highlight. Throughout 2025, The ...

After the shutdown deal, Trump has gone right back to withholding funds and dismantling appropriated entities.

Assuming anything like free and fair elections next November, the Democratic wave would be sufficient to overcome Republican attempts at voter suppression, as was the case in 2018. But this time, the ...

The flawed study ‘Deciding to Win’ may help Democrats get back to fighting for the forgotten middle class again.

How FBI Director Kash Patel undermines the FBI’s performance and credibility.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene drew up a bill making it a federal felony to provide pediatric transition care of any kind. The ...