Inequality widens in old age, and life expectancy wanes for poorer seniors.

Top funders behind a campaign against food stamps and Medicaid include some well-known rightwing political megadonors.

The former Pennsylvania governor's long track record makes it too easy to unearth examples of his own hypocrisy.

By announcing it would not comply with a California law reclassifying its workers as employees, Uber is returning to the company’s time-honored tradition as a scofflaw.

The plan, with an immediate $200 per month benefit increase, sets the left edge of the possible on a bedrock Democratic program.

Long-distance victims of Trump’s war on immigrants, African migrants have few options for refuge and fewer ways to support themselves while they wait.

If AB 5 becomes law, it could open the floodgates to similar legislation in other states. Uber and other companies may then find themselves on the defensive.

Its plainly political investigation of auto companies that agreed to California’s emission standards is just that absurd.

Unlike Mark Zuckerberg’s company, Google knows how to wield soft power to avoid estranging Democrats.

There are lots of reasons why health care bills will get passed this fall. There are also lots of reasons why they won’t.

On September 5, The New York Times’ David Brooks published a communiqué from an internet extremist. On the same day, the Prospect also received a message from this same individual. 

Jack Reed’s campaigns and leadership PAC have taken $362,400 from four defense contractors that have sold 90% of the American weapons bought by Saudi Arabia. Now he has a key role in negotiations around banning the companies’ Saudi sales.

Inspired by a recent Kansas-Missouri pact, Garden State lawmakers may warm to reforms that scale back competition with New York and Pennsylvania over jobs.

Commissioner Rohit Chopra dissented from a fine against Google for violations of child privacy laws, but the FTC redacted his explanation of how the fine was smaller than the earnings from the violations.

The debate over a public option must address the lifelong care needs of a group that currently relies on Medicaid programs to support independent living.

A coalition of unions representing more than 80,000 workers has authorized a walkout that would begin in October—and used Labor Day to pressure management.

The Israel-Lebanon border has been relatively quiet for the past 13 years. The latest tit-for-tat threatens the balance.