Weekend Reads The best of the week, curated by the editors of The American Prospect, delivered Saturday mornings. David Dayen and Prospect co-founder Bob Kuttner look at the politics and policy of the ...

Enough Republicans are on a discharge petition to get a House vote to end congressional stock trading—if Democrats sign on.

Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.

JACKSON IS ONE OF 12 CANDIDATES IN THE RACE, and faces a strong challenge from the left by state Sen. Robert Peters, who cut his teeth pushing for bail reform in Illinois. Peters has also put his ...

It wasn’t until the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 that shooting the wounded became a war crime. The 1907 version explicitly declared that it is forbidden “to kill or wound an enemy who, having ...

Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended ...

He reminds us that the internet’s decline wasn’t inevitable—it was policy-driven. Antitrust law atrophied. Venture capital rewarded growth over governance. Where Doctorow rages from the barricades, Wu ...

Why did a critical darling and commercial juggernaut publicly auction itself off, and why is it now caught in a bidding war ...

Two firms are vying for control over much of New Mexico’s energy infrastructure, but consumer advocates are fighting back.

“Despite empty promises to the contrary, Trump’s agenda is going to leave kids in America sicker, hungrier and less safe,” Wyden said in a statement. The cuts will hurt children and their families, he ...

To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination. Silicon Valley elites apply a different standard to themselves because, quite simply, they believe that they deserve a ...

When the crypto craze began, traditional financial companies were insulated from it. But Wall Street has tried to get in on the action by sponsoring crypto-backed funds, exposing blue-chip firms like ...