Published in partnership with the Center for Media and Democracy. On Friday, November 21, as most Americans were prepping for ...

Our veterans affairs reporter looks back on the year.

Contra again?

Rather than tell his fellow New Yorkers to lower their expectations of what government could do, the city’s new mayor vowed that “the only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.” ...

Silicon Valley has pioneered lawbreaking like never before, turning illegal ventures into untold billions. Elon Musk helped Donald Trump bring this same approach to Washington. Discussion of AI often ...

The Trump administration’s plans to lower prices are just Biden-era retreads. Unfortunately, they’re just plans, with no ...

Overview: Vought has claimed that the Federal Reserve has no "combined earnings" this year, therefore it cannot give CFPB money. Judge Amy Berman Jackson shot that down. In an order issued today, a ...

Sam Levine speaks to the press after being appointed by New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as the incoming commissioner of the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection. Credit: Derek ...

First came the shock treatment administered by DOGE, which dispatched teenage sociopaths to hack into the Treasury Department’s payment systems and stop payment to anything deemed “woke,” change the ...

I’ve now been at the Prospect for almost four years. If last year proved the value of independent journalism during an election dominated by corporate media and tech companies, this year proved its ...

Our John Lewis Writing Fellow shares her favorite stories of the year.