The scion of a political family wants to win Omaha’s swingy congressional district and improve lives for working people, amid attacks from both parties and doubts from apathetic residents.

Stephenson King Jr. was shot and killed by a Boston police officer last month. It hasn’t yet made national headlines.

A new class action lawsuit against Jackson Farming Company of Autryville highlights how agricultural employers abuse immigrant workers. New GOP policies aim to make that more common.

In California, news came of an antitrust lawsuit filed by the state against the company that alleges Amazon pressured Levi’s ...

Yet another consequence of the war in Iran is a looming supply shock in plastics. Plastics, derived from oil by-products, are ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani waves during an address marking his first hundred days in office, April 12, 2026, at the Knockdown Center in New York. Credit: Andres Kudacki/AP Photo Six months ...

Fertilizer prices are crushing rural farmers. Also, attacks on Gulf state aluminum smelters leave America exposed.

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Once every blue or blood moon, Hollywood still manages to rally everyone around a movie. Audiences, ...

His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.

In principle, Americans are owed $166 billion in refunds of Trump’s illegal tariffs. But actually collecting is like unscrambling an egg.

Hollywood and filmmaking communities, or the filmgoing public. Once the company was subsumed under Ellison’s Paramount, the consolidation would clearly lead to layoffs and fewer films. Coming at a ...

The American labor movement will soon have something it’s never had before: a centralized strike fund. Union Now, the new nonprofit and brainchild of International President Sara Nelson, began ...