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AlterNet Black Agenda Report Common Dreams (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, October 15, 2026 at 4:11 PM EDT Who Are the Real Extremists? One of the most prominent shibboleths in the media's assessment of what ails America is that both parties have become too extreme. We are polarized, we've read time and again, because the Democrats and Republicans are equally culpable of hewing to ideological fringes, giving centrist voters no real options when elections rolled around. October 15, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT El-Sayed Works to Stitch Together a Diverse Majority Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. About a month after Michigan's August 4 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, where Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, depending on how you look at it, won in an upset or survived a squeaker, he sat down with a roundtable of Black mayors and elected officials across the state. The primary results clearly showed that El-Sayed had to take immediate steps to win over Black voters who had backed his chief rival Rep. Haley Stevens in the primary, and this meeting was part of the strategy. October 15, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT Trump's Great Gift to Chinese Automakers Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. The latest inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is out, and the news is not great. The price of gasoline is up 34 percent over the last year, while the price of heating oil is up 74 percent. Diesel is up 70 percent just since August. All that, of course, is because of Donald Trump's war in Iran, which shows no sign of ending. Just on Tuesday this week, Iran struck five different oil tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz. October 15, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT In Nebraska, Pete Ricketts Was a Data Center's Best Friend Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Nebraska independent candidate Dan Osborn, in his second run for U.S. Senate, has made a habit this cycle of creating digital ads that are only slightly less over the top than the Oscar-winning film Everything Everywhere All at Once. The latest, set up as a mock ad for his opponent Sen. Pete Ricketts, praises him for welcoming racks of computers to Nebraska's open spaces, "finally delivering the tax relief for Google and their hardworking air conditioners that struggling Nebraska families have cried out for." Then Ricketts zaps pure energy from his hands to summon data centers onto farm fields. It's something to see. October 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT What Will Everyone Do for a Living? I'm in London this week. Before I left home, I contacted my phone company to check my rate plan. I hate talking to AI droids, so I waited for several minutes to get a human on the line. October 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT ICE Planning $100 Million 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is fast-tracking a $100 million domestic surveillance program to put 142 intelligence agents in more than two dozen cities and the District of Columbia, in what contracting and surveillance experts said would be a significant expansion of the agency's ability to reach into private lives. October 14, 2026 at 5:20 AM EDT Pre-Election ICE Surge in California Could Backfire on Republicans Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. A wave of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity against farmworkers in the Central Valley of California is upending one of the nation's closest House races. The raids in a major agricultural region with high concentrations of Latino farmworkers have taken dozens of community members into ICE custody over the past couple of weeks, spurring outrage and returning Donald Trump's aggressive and unpopular immigration enforcement policies to the front pages, just as ballots arrived by mail. October 14, 2026 at 5:10 AM EDT 'We're Still Here': Young Black Democrats Fight Through Gerrymandering Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. In April, the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais essentially gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, enabling states to engage in racial gerrymandering through new congressional maps designed to favor Republicans. The ruling eviscerated one of the most effective pieces of civil rights law, and gave a green light to Republican legislatures to dismantle pockets of blue that have long existed in the American South, as well as disenfranchise a population of Black Americans that has struggled with exercising its voting power for centuries. October 14, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT Commodity Traders Rake In Cash During Trump Administration Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. A little over two years ago, a cadre of global commodity traders was caught bribing officials across Latin America and Africa to secure lucrative state oil contracts, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. They were forced to pay the U.S. government nearly $2 billion in fines and forfeitures, in exchange for a pause on further criminal charges. October 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM EDT The Militants' Victory at the UAW Over the past four years, the United Auto Workers""once the most influential and progressive union on the planet""has shown clear signs of reviving some of its past glory and moxie. In recent decades, the union's once-stellar record had been tarnished by the declining fortunes of America's three legacy automakers (GM, Ford, and the renamed Chrysler, now doing business as Stellantis) and the concomitantly paltry contracts the union had bargained, by the UAW's inability to unionize the foreign-owned auto plants spread across the South, and by the spending of union funds on the semi-lavish lifestyles of some union officers (including two past presidents), a number of whom have served time in federal pens for their misdeeds. As a result of those felonies, the union reached a court settlement that brought its internal workings under the oversight of a court-appointed monitor, who four years ago shifted the union's process of electing its officers from the delegated conventions it had been holding since its founding in 1936 to elections by the rank-and-file membership. October 13, 2026 at 12:44 PM EDT Organized Money: Charting a New Course on AI Regulation (With Rep. Pramila Jayapal) Over the last several weeks, AI regulation fever has swept Congress, with competing ideas coming from various corners of Congress and the AI giants. On the table are solutions ranging from formal bans on superintelligence to a self-regulatory regime similar to banks. Today, David Dayen and Laurel Kilgour sit down with Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) to discuss her approach. The National AI Charter Act Framework relies on an old but reliable method of regulating AI companies using corporate charters: "The crux of this bill is simple: If you want to be an AI company in this country, you have to obtain a public charter that has a broad set of terms and conditions to operate and ensure public benefit without the harms." We get into her bill, a history of corporate charters, and what exactly we want in corporate regulations from AI to health care. October 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT The KC Mafia This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. On September 30, The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center, the iconic performing arts space on the Potomac River, had burned through a $21 million line of credit, a $10 million endowment, a $257 million congressional appropriation from the One Big Beautiful Bill, and an undetermined quantity of art, antiquities, and ticket revenues since Donald Trump's inauguration, despite having axed all but a handful of the venue's 2,500 staffers and stiffed the Washington National Opera of an alleged $17 million. |
