Greatest Hits of 2025
A look back at a year of writing for the Prospect
LATEST
Profiting Off Immigrant Illness, Abuse, and Terror
Staff writer Whitney Wimbish’s Best of 2025
Ten for ’25
Some of my articles to keep you warm on a cold winter’s night
WATCH & LISTEN
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Year-End Extravaganza
David speaks with several Prospect staff members about the year in review and what they’re looking forward to in 2026.
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The War on Veterans
David speaks with Suzanne Gordon and Steve Early about attacks on veterans’ health care and veterans’ disability benefits.
FROM THE MAGAZINE
The $79 Trillion Heist
We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.
To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
Meet the Connectors
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
In Case You Missed It
The Empty Suit
How FBI Director Kash Patel undermines the FBI’s performance and credibility.
House Democrats Squander the Opportunity of Trumpian Corruption
Democrats have a golden opportunity to be the anti-corruption party, but the House caucus is not seizing it.
When in Doubt, Pretend to Be Lina Khan
The Trump administration’s plans to lower prices are just Biden-era retreads. Unfortunately, they’re just plans, with no expected follow-through.
Demands for Data Center Moratoriums Surge
Americans are getting wise to the threats posed by the lightly regulated facilities competing with humans for resources.
A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and make life’s necessities affordable.
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You, Too, Can Name Valuable Public Institutions After President Trump!
Herewith, a to-do list for 2026
Trump Loses GOP Support on China Policy
Add Republican objections to Trump’s China capitulations to the growing realm of defections from leaders of his own party.
culture
‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
The Hit Hollywood Didn’t Want
Ryan Coogler’s bloodsucker blockbuster is all about Black creative freedom. No wonder the industry saw it as a threat.
The Internet’s Tollbooth Operators
Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
