October 27, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
Saving Social Security

Saving Social Security Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. For decades, the right has been trying to undermine Social Security via various privatization schemes, claiming that the money will not be there when you retire. Republicans have tried to make these claims a self-fulfilling prophecy by refusing to shore up Social Security's finances in the face of economic and demographic shifts.

October 27, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
In Ohio, Crypto Revenge Spending Runs Into a Data Center Backlash

In Ohio, Crypto Revenge Spending Runs Into a Data Center Backlash Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. In Toledo, Ohio, around 20 miles north of the 280-acre site where Meta is currently building a data center despite pushback from local residents, former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) spoke to supporters about what he called the "crypto/data center crowd" vowing to spend $30 million against his campaign to win back a Senate seat. "You know why? Because they know I'm going to take them on," he told the crowd before launching into a story about his recent visit to the nearby data center construction site. "Once they're built," he said, "your electric rates are going up. Your electric rates go up and you have no say in it."

October 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Lula's Huge Win for the Left

Lula's Huge Win for the Left Luiz Ina'cio Lula da Silva of the Brazilian Workers' Party, who turns 81 tomorrow, rained on the parade of oligarchs everywhere, with a stunning comeback victory over Fla'vio Bolsonaro. Lula's win spoiled what was supposed to be the capstone of a series of right-wing victories in smaller Latin American countries, leaving the region's two largest nations, Brazil (population: 214 million) and Mexico (133 million), governed by effective progressives.

October 26, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
The Residents Forced to Choose Amid Ohio's Tech Boom

The Residents Forced to Choose Amid Ohio's Tech Boom This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. NEW ALBANY, OHIO - As Karen Bucher, standing on her front porch, started to describe the noise she said keeps her and her husband up at night, a massive boom thundered across the few remaining fields around their subdivision in Licking County, Ohio. The Buchers' home is one of 37 in a loop around Bermuda Drive, now surrounded by data centers and construction sites owned by Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft, as well as a massive microchip factory being built by Intel. The Buchers and their neighbors are the last holdouts here in the New Albany epicenter of Ohio's tech and data center boom, but within a year, they said, they too will leave, and all their homes will be demolished.

October 26, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
The Question Before Los Angeles Isn't Whether to Have a Socialist Mayor

The Question Before Los Angeles Isn't Whether to Have a Socialist Mayor Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. The media coverage of the contest between incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and her challenger, City Councilmember Nithya Raman, is in one respect surprising. That a mayoral contest, which may result in Bass's ouster, in America's second-largest metropolis has drawn widespread coverage is no surprise, particularly since Raman's membership in the Democratic Socialists of America appears to make the election one more test of the extent of socialism's rise, particularly in urban America. But that the coverage has often focused on the internal divisions within DSA between those locals that prioritize the kinds of mass outreach inherent in electoral politics, and other locals and the organization's national committee, which have a more sectarian focus on ideological purity, is indeed surprising, at least in publications that hardly qualify as "left." That this rift is discussed (rather brilliantly) in the current issue of Catalyst, the quarterly theoretical journal established by the socialist magazine Jacobin, is a matter of course. That this rift has also been covered by ou

October 26, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
Did Elon Musk Commit Some Light Treason?

Did Elon Musk Commit Some Light Treason? Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. In the war between Russia and Ukraine, the latter has gained the edge on the battlefield over the last year or so, even rolling up an attempted Russian pincer with Operation Vivaldi. Ukrainian forces have also stepped up their attacks on Russian oil refineries, causing major economic damage. In response, Russia has stepped up its war crimes, striking Ukrainian civilian infrastructure""above all, power plants""and deploying squads of drone operators to murder civilians at random.

October 23, 2026 at 6:01 PM EDT
Maine Students Turn Out for Troy Jackson and AOC

Maine Students Turn Out for Troy Jackson and AOC Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. PORTLAND, MAINE - "They've been afraid of a waitress in the House and a logger in the United States Senate."

October 23, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Robert Rubin, Faux Statesman

Robert Rubin, Faux Statesman Robert Rubin had an op-ed in The New York Times earlier this week titled "In Six Decades of Public Life, I Never Thought I Would Write This Piece."

October 23, 2026 at 1:19 PM EDT
The Trump Administration May Have Just Lied to Judge About an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea

The Trump Administration May Have Just Lied to Judge About an ICE flight to Equatorial Guinea Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. This is a breaking story and will be updated.

October 23, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
What a Health Care Crisis Looks Like on the Ground

What a Health Care Crisis Looks Like on the Ground This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. LOS ANGELES - I wound around the outside of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital (MLKCH), just off the 105 freeway in the unincorporated South L.A. community of Willowbrook, which is adjacent to Watts. We had just gone past four large white tents framed with sturdy metal beams, placed in a parking lot on the asphalt outside. They are the kind of temporary structures you might see in Africa during an Ebola outbreak.

October 23, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
Can Tom Perriello Win Back His Old Seat, 18 Years Later?

Can Tom Perriello Win Back His Old Seat, 18 Years Later? Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. POWHATAN, VIRGINIA - In a classroom-sized space at the Powhatan Public Library, a dozen or so of incumbent Rep. John McGuire's (R-VA) constituents let out cheers and applause when Tom Perriello walked into the room on Monday evening. The Democratic congressional candidate for Virginia's Fifth District circled the room, shaking hands and bantering with those who had gathered for his AI data center town hall. It was one of several Perriello has hosted across the district in recent weeks, and that doesn't include his many other public engagements, such as the 26-hour stint of straight campaigning he did earlier this month, canvasses Perriello has co-led with young voters, and Sunday's "Souls to the Polls" rally on the first day of in-person early voting.

October 23, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Quirkiest House Race in America Is in Alaska

The Quirkiest House Race in America Is in Alaska Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. An October 20 Data for Progress poll showed toss-ups across every major race in Alaska, a state that Donald Trump won by 13 points in 2024. That includes the dead-heat race for Alaska's at-large House seat, which covers the whole state. Democrats have pinned their hopes on and spent money to elect an independent who hasn't yet confirmed which party he'll caucus with should he get to Congress.