This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina unleashed a levee-busting catastrophe on New Orleans that woke ...

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David speaks with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early about attacks on veterans’ health care and veterans’ disability benefits.

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A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.

Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.

A bill that passed the New York legislature was completely gutted and substituted with language perceived as friendlier to the industry.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court began to grapple with what may be its most difficult challenge in its current session: To whom does it owe its ultimate submission and greatest obeisance: Donald ...

On January 1, some 22 million Americans will face massive increases in their health insurance premiums, as enhanced tax credits for policies under the Affordable Care Act expire. According to KFF, a ...