This article appears in the August 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. If you’d like to receive our next issue in your mailbox, please subscribe here. Mostly by sheer coincidence, I had the occasion this spring and summer, before the semiquincen... See more
Carola Hagenau of Castle Rock, Colorado, was out of work but not out of hope. Her corporate employer eliminated her job during the COVID pandemic and offered to find her something else within the organization. But Hagenau, who was 56 at the time, didn’t w... See more
It says something about the state of the Republican Congress that their big feat this week was getting the House to hold votes. Dissident members of the House Freedom Caucus were so adamant about passage of the voter suppression bill known as the SAVE Act... See more
Last Friday, a kind of mini-trial was held over the question of whether two media conglomerates, Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Discovery, should be allowed to merge in a $110 billion deal. Attorneys for both Paramount and the 12 states suing to stop... See more
Published Troy Jackson will be the replacement Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Maine after smoking his opposition in the 16 county delegate elections held over the weekend. Jackson will take on Sen. Susan Collins as a substitute for Graham Platner o... See more
