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.” ...

Several former members of the Biden administration, including a cabinet official, are going to work for New York City’s new mayor. Here’s what they have planned.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As Trump makes racist attacks on Somali immigrants, media giants CBS, Fox, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times parrot claims from a weaponized DOJ and self-interested players. In recent ...

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 ...