1+ hour, 38+ min ago   (185+ words) As the Department of Homeland Security and ICE see their budgets balloon, anything unrelated to immigration is getting short shrift. Listen via'Apple,'Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. In the fight to drastically limit ICE as a condition of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1469+ words) This article appears in the February 2026 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Read more from the issue. WASHINGTON " The room checks all the dive-bar boxes: cheap beer and cocktails, big-screen TVs, high-top tables, and one scuzzy restroom. The rain-splattered Liberty…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1132+ words) This article is a joint publication of The American Prospect and Workday Magazine, a nonprofit newsroom devoted to holding the powerful accountable through the perspective of workers. Rob doesn't want anyone else to experience what his co-workers at the Target…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1133+ words) Don't expect Kevin Warsh, Trump's nominee to chair the Fed, to have smooth sailing, either at his confirmation hearing or at the Federal Reserve'if he does manage to get confirmed. The commentators have pointed to the challenge of reconciling Trump's…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (941+ words) More from Naomi Bethune Wells, along with other Black journalists of her age, pioneered a trail that contemporary figures have continued to blaze. But just like Wells and her counterparts, Black journalists today are still marginalized, both in their profession…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (389+ words) Time was when California was known for being run by a single corporation. In the late 19th century, its state legislature was widely regarded as a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which had a fixed price for purchase of assemblymembers…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (582+ words) Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's two-week window for finalizing DHS reform, in exchange for averting a government shutdown, is being portrayed as a tactical victory over Republican Senate Leader John Thune. On Thursday, the Republican motion to advance all six…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (233+ words) We tend to think of the law as a public asset'centuries of statutes, common law, and legal precedents that shape how society governs itself. So why is the law itself so hard and so expensive to access? Listen via'Apple,'Spotify,…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1044+ words) The year is 1924, and the Immigration Act has just passed. The Ku Klux Klan is in its heyday. White supremacists use both the law and vigilante action to maintain racial hierarchy and outright push nonwhite people out of the country....

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (728+ words) While it remains unclear whether federal immigration authorities were in fact staying at the hotel, Hilton has doubled down on its decision to continue accommodating them. More from James Baratta Additional noise demonstrations have targeted Hilton hotels in the Twin…...