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.
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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.
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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.
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Why Californians Will Pay $340 More for Electricity Next Year
The state public utility commission is poised to approve a rate of return that critics say overcharges customers by $4.4 billion per year.
Another Biden Financial Regulator Spins Through the Revolving Door
Michael Hsu, former OCC head, has joined a VC firm backing crypto and fintech companies.
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
Australia Proves Gun Control Works
The Bondi mass shooting would have been a lot worse if not for Aussie gun regulations—which if anything aren’t strict enough.
Not Left vs. Center, but the People vs. the Powerful
The flawed study ‘Deciding to Win’ may help Democrats get back to fighting for the forgotten middle class again.
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Jeffries Undercuts Congressional Stock Trading Ban
A bipartisan solution was gaining momentum, but the House Democratic leader just issued his own bill that will prevent consensus.
Trump’s Imaginary 2025
Not surprisingly, his look back at his first year as our re-elected president bore no resemblance to anyone else’s 2025.
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.
