But there have been plenty of other extreme weather events during Trump’s second term—from severe winter storms to tornadoes ...

Fewer streaming options, or a streaming landscape where two of the three largest outlets have the same corporate parent, ...

Soccer fans braved a winter storm to demand FIFA President Gianni Infantino reject Trump’s white supremacy, using the slogan ‘No ICE in Our Cup.’ ...

Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.

USAID funding supported efforts to eradicate tuberculosis in India, one of the country’s deadliest diseases. Now, that money ...

David and writing fellow Emma Janssen discuss their contributions to the Prospect’s weeklong series on affordability.

AI’s real contribution to humanity could be maximizing corporate profit by preying on personal data to raise prices. In fact, ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. There are, of course, two components to affordability: sellers’ prices and buyers’ incomes. For most ...

The New Jersey senator is opposing his own party’s efforts to defang anti-corruption measures. In an interview, he depicted the fight as critical to regaining public trust.

You’re more interested in staying out late with Oprah and Bill Gates at Kris Jenner’s birthday party than being by my side when I get sick. When my landlord evicted me from my house for having an ...

Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.