After mining out state budgets for 50 years, conservative lawmakers across the country are now turning their pickaxes to local governments’ largest source of revenue: property taxes.

The 118th Congress set time and page limits for environmental impact statements in 2023, and forced through approval of a contested fracked gas pipeline in West Virginia; last year’s Big Beautiful ...

It turns out he’s still alive, and still teaching at Fordham Law. We had some questions about an amendment that wasn’t written to meet a moment like this.

But in the past few weeks, and the past few hours, Trump has found a way to sound even tougher, more belligerent, more ...

More than 800 health care facilities are at risk or have already closed since Republicans severely cut funding last year. The worst is still ahead.

Joe Biden listened to the left on full employment. But the lasting effects were wanting, and the politics were brutal.

The proposed cuts in several forms of health care spending are a real version of the fake “death panels” that the right ...

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Jim Himes keeps telling his constituents that U.S. intelligence agencies don’t spy on them, and “have no reason” to buy Americans’ data. Advocates say that’s untrue.

The US-Israel-Iran war choke point at the Strait of Hormuz will ripple through the global economy for years. Get the latest stories from the Prospect delivered right to your inbox for the in-depth ...

Mitchell Grummon has been the publisher of The American Prospect since 2024. Prior to becoming the publisher of the Prospect, Mitch was the CFO of Mother Jones. Mitch graduated from Occidental College ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who is widely seen as a standard-bearer of progressive politics and a potential 2028 presidential contender, pledged at a private New York City Democratic Socialists ...