The American Prospect

The American Prospect is a quarterly magazine focused on American politics, specifically promoting liberal ideas. Located in Washington, D.C., its mission is to support liberal and progressive objectives through insightful reporting, analysis, and discussions about current issues and future opportunities. The magazine was established in 1990 by Robert Kuttner, Paul Starr, and Robert Reich.

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Warrantless Spying Report Signals Expansion of Domestic Surveillance

3 days ago | prospect.org | Daniel Boguslaw

Earlier this month, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a report on the most well-known aspect of the United States’ mass surveillance apparatus: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
A Working-Class Pope

3 days ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

In March of 1996, while covering the Republican presidential primaries for L.A. Weekly, I spent a week traveling with Pat Buchanan, the right-wing columnist and MAGA progenitor, who was conducting his second part-protest-part-real campaign for his party’s nomination (losing the first, in 1992, to George H.W. Bush and in the process of losing the second to Bob Dole).
The Big Beautiful Bill Is Hanging by a Thread

3 days ago | prospect.org | David Dayen

Back on January 6, a day when important things tend to happen, I wrote about a quietly important moment in the as-yet-not-begun Trump presidency.
The Democrats’ Great Debates

5 days ago | prospect.org | Robert Kuttner

There are now two parallel debates about the role and future of the Democratic Party. One has to do with how fiercely and by what means Democrats should resist Trump. The other is about what Democrats should stand for going forward. For a time, the accommodationists in the party had a modicum of credibility. Maybe there were areas of common ground? That posture was undermined by Trump’s increasing destructiveness and his habit of making a deal and then demanding more.
We Can’t Count on Trump’s SEC to Tell Us If He Is Manipulating the Market

6 days ago | prospect.org | Kenny Stancil |Timi Iwayemi

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. A combination of factors is limiting the public’s ability to ascertain the depths of insider trading and market manipulation likely occurring as a result of President Donald Trump’s chaotic trade war and self-enriching crypto schemes.
Trumpflation Is Here

6 days ago | prospect.org | Ryan Cooper

By far the loudest economic complaint against the Biden administration was about inflation. A May 2024 poll from Pew found 62 percent of adults rating it as a “very big problem,” the highest of any issue and 37 percentage points higher than unemployment. President Biden was blamed for this, and the discontent undoubtedly dragged down Kamala Harris’s campaign. In many ways, this was unfair.
The Crypto Racket

6 days ago | prospect.org | Candice Bernd

This story was cross-posted from the Texas Observer, an investigative news organization that covers Texas communities whose stories are often ignored.
Pope Leo, Global American

6 days ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Chicago, that somber city, has given the Catholic Church a pope, by way of Peru and Italy. Robert Francis Prevost’s life, like that of his church, has been nothing if not cosmopolitan, crossing borders and continents, spanning hemispheres. The Church, of course, is not only cosmopolitan but parochial as well, hewing to doctrines crafted more than a millennium ago by clerics a good deal less cosmopolitan than the crew that just anointed Prevost.
Unchecked Balances

1 week ago | prospect.org | James Baratta

At least historically, the expectation has been that the attorney general of the United States is wholly independent of political influences and ethically uncompromised. Given that the AG is entrusted with leading the entire criminal prosecution authority of the U.S., upholding the rule of law is a job requirement.
Trump’s Utopia

1 week ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

America has seldom had a president as enamored of the nation’s storied past as Donald Trump is, and never had a president as starkly ignorant of its actual past as Trump is, either. Reopening Alcatraz. Making coal mining great again. Resurrecting our role as a colonial power, so that the only cross-border products we need come from lands we control. And reconstructing the world-class economy we enjoyed when our tariffs were highest, in the 1890s. Where to begin?