The American Prospect

With every release of economic data, the case for a wealth tax becomes ever more obvious. While The Washington Post documents how the median wage struggles to keep up with price hikes, The Wall Street Journal reports that corporate profits are at record h

Amazon's chief lobbyist fighting a delivery worker protection bill in New York City recently endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani is Jessica Schumer, the daughter of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), according to public lobbying records and three s

Of all New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's campaign promises, his plan for government-subsidized grocery stores has resulted in the strongest, and sometimes strangest, ire. Critics have called it bad policy, bad business, and even the tipping point on our sli

The wordless show of dissent that cost Dr. Feras Hamdan his job, a $50,000 cash surety bond, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and the better part of his sanity lasted all of 24 seconds. It was June 19, 2025, the seventh day of the so-called

An anti-sex-trafficking nonprofit in Utah whose founder resigned after multiple women accused him of trafficking and sexual abuse has won a federal contract to provide legal services to unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody. The Trump adm

Last week, I reported that Seth Moulton, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey for the Massachusetts Democratic Senate nomination, was given a sweetheart opportunity to buy into three lucrative defense-related stocks not available to the general pub

Congress is scheduled for about three more weeks of work between now and the midterm elections, none of it before mid-September. Early Saturday morning, the Senate wrapped up its work for the summer, leaving a large to-do list for that brief pre-election

If you haven't yet seen this sketch featuring Barack Obama from the final episode of Larry David's HBO series, you owe it to yourself. In it, Obama plays himself as president, and David plays himself as a White House aide. The skit is set in 2014. The pre

Private intelligence firms are selling dossiers about critics of artificial intelligence and the data centers powering them, including trying to peddle them to federal regulators, according to documents obtained by the Prospect. The offerings show that ev

Last week, in the background of the Senate's desperate scramble to get through the backlog of agenda items that have been piling up all summer, a dramatic showdown of money and power took place over the cryptocurrency industry's top legislative priority,