Summers was overseeing the economic policy plank of the Center for American Progress’s effort. Emails released this week show ...

David Dayen and Prospect co-founder Bob Kuttner look at the politics and policy of the end of the government shutdown.

Turning off the logistically complicated SNAP system—which relies on the federal government, states, and private companies to function in concert—and then trying to turn it back on quickly is no easy ...

Multiple Democratic groups, House members, and candidates say it’s time for the Senate minority leader to go. It turns out ...

It’s long past time to jettison Summers as hopelessly contaminated. But there are far more serious reasons to dump Summers than his gross connections with Jeffrey Epstein.

Senate Democrats actually know how to use their power to counter Donald Trump and ensure that legislative funding gets ...

The bill, which would impose a mandatory death penalty on Palestinians who kill Jewish Israelis, was introduced by the ...

The recent release of more emails is only the latest in about 10,000 stories implicating Donald Trump in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuses. What were the Justice Department and congressional Democrats doing ...

Coming out of last Tuesday’s election blowout, the Democrats were riding high and unified. But on Sunday night, centrist ...

Starbucks baristas didn’t want to go on strike. But after four years of waiting for a contract at any of their hundreds of unionized stores, 12,000 workers at one of the world’s biggest fast-food ...

A legal office in the White House, at the behest of Office of Management and Budget director and Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, has decided to redefine the word “earnings” in order to bankrupt ...

The stereotype of the welfare queen, typically a single Black mother, was employed to rationalize the pause in SNAP benefits, and it proved effective.