The largest corporate health care hospitals in the country are consolidating their power and using it to rip off patients, a new study from Families USA shows. Released amid the GOP’s manufactured ...
China’s trade surplus with the entire world hit an all-time record of $1.19 trillion in 2025, Beijing just announced. But here’s the stunner in the report. China’s surplus with the U.S. declined by 22 ...
Trump’s White House OMB director has quietly institutionalized the government demolition agenda set in motion by Elon Musk’s wrecking crew. The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes ...
In today’s edition, we discuss how the haphazard ending to the war won’t divert from the terrible path Donald Trump has led the world down.
He also lamented a shift “from criticism of the opinion to criticism of the judge … As soon as you personalize, it can become problematic.” Judging from the preposterousness of these remarks, I ...
Agri Stats collected proprietary information from all meat producers and encouraged price increases for decades. After a ...
Britain’s centrist Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer crashes while Spain’s Socialist Pedro Sánchez shows how to lead from the left. Could there be a lesson here?
During back-to-back congressional hearings last month, lawmakers grilled the CEOs of five major health insurers about their vertically integrated business models. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) ...
The Eighth Circuit ordered that President Biden’s generous repayment plan be thrown out. But the Trump administration doesn’t want to be forced into it. Since the inauguration of Donald Trump for a ...
This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. If you watched a minute of college football this fall, you saw the ads. A voice-over darkly ...
The GOP is too wedded to free markets and scornful of the welfare state to ever make anything in health care work. Republicans, for once, are sounding downright squeamish about onrushing massive cuts ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks to reporters about Democratic victories on Election Day, at the Capitol in Washington, November 5, 2025, day 36 of the government shutdown. Credit: J ...