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July 16, 2026 | The American Prospect
After Industry Request, OSHA Moves to Roll Back Ladder Safety Regulation
After requests from the petrochemical industry, OSHA moved to rollback ladder safety. Unions and safety professionals are sounding the alarm.
July 08, 2026 | The American Prospect
Fletcher Calcagno Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Op-Ed CryptocurrencyEthics in GovernmentFintechIndependent Agencies
Not All Nepo Babies Are Trumps
Last month, Fortune reported that Theodore Gillibrand, son of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), had received a $30 million dollar round of investment for his company, American Perpetual Exchange Commission (APEC). The funding round valued APEC at $300 million and was led by Lux Capital, a venture capital firm whose other investments include the Peter Thiel-backed Anduril Industries and Erebor Bank.
June 12, 2026 | The American Prospect
New Documents Detail Nine-Figure, Silicon Valley–Funded Abundance Movement
The Prospect has obtained a fundraising pitch and historical manifesto from inside the movement.
June 09, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
Why Are Any Democrats Supporting a Bill That Was Championed by the Crypto Industry?
In May, the crypto industry won big as the Senate Banking Committee advanced the Clarity Act. It passed largely along party lines, but two Democrats with crypto-friendly records, Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), broke with their colleagues to support the bill.
June 05, 2026 | The American Prospect
Can Democrats Learn From the 2024 Loss?
The 2024 DNC autopsy reveals a party unable to process its past, or suggest a future.
May 22, 2026 | The American Prospect
Who Died When Elon Musk Killed USAID?
Nicholas Enrich’s new memoir details the human toll of the agency’s dismantling.
May 19, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCongressional OversightDOGEElon MuskExecutive BranchFinancial RegulationGovernanceGovernment CapacityHealthRussell VoughtTrump Watch
Democrats Shouldn’t Let Russell Vought Fly Under the Radar
Members of the opposition party need to start connecting the dots between the OMB director’s actions and their constituents’ preventable suffering.
May 14, 2026 | 350.org
Kenny Stancil Risalat Khan, Insure Our Future
Op-Ed Climate and EnvironmentCorporate CrackdownFinancial RegulationHousing
Out of Pocket: Pollution Premiums - the real cost of fossil fuels on our insurance bills
Fossil fuels are making our insurance premiums unaffordable and exposing us to financial ruin. But momentum is building to ramp up clean energy and make polluters pay!
May 12, 2026 | The American Prospect
Third Way or the Highway
The centrist outfit’s latest foray into the culture wars isn’t about a streamer—it’s about entrenching oligarch control of influence and electoral infrastructure.
April 14, 2026 | The American Prospect
Trump’s NLRB Doesn’t Want to Investigate Worker Complaints
The agency tasked with protecting workers is making it harder for them to submit complaints and letting employers break the law.
April 10, 2026 | Talking Points Memo
DOGE’s Ransacking of SSA Has Left Us All to Float in a Data Security Vacuum
Artificial intelligence and crypto are supercharging identity theft and financial fraud as the Trump administration is making sensitive personal data less secure.
April 06, 2026 | The Sling
The First Amendment Does Not Grant Carte Blanche to Social Media: A Reply to David French
Social media platforms should be held responsible for the legal consequences of design functions in the same way that other parties are held responsible for editorial decisions.
April 02, 2026 | The American Prospect
Dispatches From Trump’s War on Information
Inside the administration’s mishandling of economic data and erosion of trust in federal statistics
February 13, 2026 | The American Prospect
Doug Burgum, the Regime Toady of Our Time
According to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Donald Trump is the “king of PEACE”—an odd position for a Lutheran like Burgum, as it would rank Trump above the “Prince of Peace,” Jesus Christ—and Europeans should be “cheering” for him to annex Greenland. It’s also odd for the Interior secretary, whose duties principally concern federal lands, to be commenting on European opinion.