3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (316+ words) Last night, I watched Donald Trump’s one-hour-and-forty-five-minute speech to the Republican midterm convention. I watched it with the sound on. I watched it so you wouldn’t have to. If that moves you to send a contribution to the Prospect, please…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (356+ words) But Carter opposed the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill, the centerpiece of the labor-liberal agenda. (Only after the bill was gutted of its substance did Carter sign it into law.) Carter had also declined to line up the 60 Senate votes required…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (893+ words) It’s time to call this conduct what it is: lawless. The Fed, Wall Street’s most dependable friend in Washington, is a wellspring of extralegal behavior that contributes to the preservation and expansion of corporate power over the public interest. More…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (498+ words) Now, however, a whistleblower lays out new alarming details. In a letter to Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), the whistleblower, described as a government official, explains how the Postal Service is rushing to build an online portal that will be used…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (368+ words) I have a question about the critical Michigan Senate race: Are centrist Democratic officials and pundits going to spend the next 60 days loudly making the Republican Party’s arguments for them? It should come as no surprise that Mike Rogers, El-Sayed’s…...