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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Trump Labor Nominees Indifferent to Worker Rights

1 day ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

Republicans love work requirements. Any semi-able-bodied adult seeking to qualify for Medicaid or food stamps needs to find work to qualify, and should rising unemployment rates (such as those expected to be just around the corner once President Trump’s tariffs take effect) make that difficult, well, that’s too damn bad. But Republicans don’t pay much heed to work itself, particularly the kind of low-paid jobs that employ people poor enough to qualify for Medicaid or food stamps.
Industry Lobbyists Pitch Driverless ‘Ghost Trains’ Across America

2 days ago | prospect.org | James Baratta

In railroading, danger is omnipresent. Freight train crews, typically consisting of a conductor and an engineer, bear the awesome responsibility of keeping a critical piece of the supply chain moving. They regularly handle the complex decision-making required to transport goods across some of the most unforgiving regions in the U.S. Help is seldom close by, and disaster can strike at a moment’s notice.
The Humanitarian Aid Shooting Galleries in Gaza

3 days ago | prospect.org | Maureen Tkacik

Late in the evening of April 1, 2024, the anonymous poster behind popular Hebrew-language Telegram channel “Dead Terrorists” shared with its 124,000 followers a chaotic video of a fresh batch of corpses lying on the floor in an anonymous dark room.
The First Casualty of the Big Beautiful Bill?

3 days ago | prospect.org | David Dayen

Welcome to “Trump’s Beautiful Disaster,” a pop-up newsletter about the Republican tax and spending bill, one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in a generation. Sign up for the newsletter to get it in your in-box. The Relief Pitcher and Joni Hearse Yesterday, the Yale School of Public Health sent a letter to Senate Democratic leaders with a new analysis showing that the One Big Beautiful Bill’s changes to federal health care programs would kill more than 51,000 Americans annually.
Polling Conundrums: Activist Government, Sí; Democrats, No!

3 days ago | prospect.org | Harold Meyerson

There’s good news for liberal economics today, as well as bad news for Democratic Party economics, and all-around confusion about the public’s take on economics. The good news comes from some polling analysis released today by the Center for American Progress (CAP). The bad news, along with a smidgen of good, comes from a new poll conducted for CNN. The confusion comes when you try to reconcile the two, though I’ll take a stab at it at the end of this On TAP.
Privatizing Speculative Gain, Socializing Risk

4 days ago | prospect.org | Robert Kuttner

On May 21, President Trump said that he was giving “serious consideration” to privatizing the two giant entities that purchase mortgages on the secondary market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. This could revive rampant speculation in the system of securitization of mortgages, which was the primary factor in the financial collapse of 2008. It would create a bonanza for hedge funds and private equity, which have spent nearly two decades setting up a lucrative trade.
Supreme Court: Agency Deference Is Good Now

4 days ago | prospect.org | David Dayen

Last year, when the Supreme Court stripped the judicial deference granted to federal agencies to make decisions about implementing congressional statutes, many feared that judges would become the only real policymakers in America. Both the executive and the legislative branches would be diminished, and judges would have the power to permit or block virtually anything government attempted. That judicial-centric vision of the future lasted all of 11 months.
Trump’s War on Mental Health

4 days ago | prospect.org | Robert Kuttner

With all of the blinding detail in the 1,116-page “Big Beautiful Bill” and the attention to the legislative jousting between the House and Senate, it’s too easy to lose sight of the devastating budget cuts in the bill. The major ones, such as Medicaid and food stamps, have gotten a lot of notice, but many more have received too little attention. One is mental health. A notable achievement of the Biden years, thanks to smart public policy, has been a sharp reduction in drug overdose deaths.
Empowering Big Tech Whistleblowers Gets a Senate Boost

5 days 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.
Senate Irresistible Forces Meet Immovable Objects

5 days ago | prospect.org | David Dayen

Welcome to the inaugural edition of “Trump’s Beautiful Disaster,” our pop-up newsletter covering what has improbably been labeled the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (really, “Bill Act”), agenda-spanning legislation that would radically overhaul the tax code, the social safety net, and the relationship of Americans to their government.