Daniel Boguslaw

3 weeks ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

When Donald Trump ordered near-fatal cuts to foreign aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Democrats in Congress attempted to storm the agency’s headquarters in downtown Washington. They staged hours-long press conferences bemoaning the decline of American influence abroad and screamed through bullhorns about the embarrassment and harm that Trump’s cuts will sow.

3 weeks ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

After grinding through the House, Donald Trump’s big beautiful reconciliation bill is now pending in the Senate, where weary Republicans and even wearier Democrats probe and ponder. As committees prepare to mark up the package this week, a particularly egregious and unprecedented carve-out for artificial intelligence has bubbled to the surface. Tucked into the House-approved legislation is a ten-year moratorium on state regulation of AI.

1 month ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

In a surprise announcement last week, UnitedHealth Group revealed that Andrew Witty is stepping down as CEO of the health insurance leviathan, citing “personal reasons” for his departure. Before Witty, UnitedHealth was overseen by Brian Thompson, a former executive who was allegedly gunned down by Luigi Mangione on the streets of New York last year. Taking Witty’s place is Stephen Hemsley, a UnitedHealth executive who previously served as CEO from 2006 to 2017.

1 month ago | americanprospect.bluelena.io | Ryan Cooper |Harold Meyerson |Daniel Boguslaw

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1 month ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

This article appears in the June 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Presidential sidekick Elon Musk has thus far been spared from the greatest risk to his interstellar empire: the continuity of hawkish antitrust enforcement between the Biden and Trump administrations. That’s good news for his company SpaceX and its subsidiary Starlink, which are in a plum position to dominate not only commercial space transportation, but space itself.