October 22, 2026 at 3:20 PM EDT
SpaceX Is a De Facto Government Agency. It Should Be Nationalized.

SpaceX Is a De Facto Government Agency. It Should Be Nationalized. This week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision to block Ukraine from the high-speed Starlink satellite alerts that enabled it to intercept Russian missiles and drones was made by SpaceX owner Elon Musk, either in conjunction with President Trump or in advance of Trump's support for the action. Whichever version is more correct, Musk is either making or carrying out a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign and military policy""something that no private citizen has ever done in our 250-year history.

October 22, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
The Sad Republicans Exploiting Family Tragedy

The Sad Republicans Exploiting Family Tragedy This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. The governor's race in Ohio got real nasty this week with an ad produced by Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. His campaign dug up his Democratic opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother, Donna Arthur, who accused Acton of lying about her past and told Ohioans not to vote for her.

October 22, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
As Lawmakers Scrutinize Pentagon Equity Deals, Pentagon Keeps Making Them

As Lawmakers Scrutinize Pentagon Equity Deals, Pentagon Keeps Making Them Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. The Trump administration's campaign to compel hundreds of billions of dollars of new military appropriations out of Congress, citing new materiel needs downstream of its unsanctioned Iran War, has been stalled in the Senate for months. But one unexpected winner has emerged from the congressional stalemate over defense spending: an obscure investment office in the Pentagon known as the Economic Defense Unit (EDU).

October 22, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Funny Math Behind Centrist 'Electability' Arguments

The Funny Math Behind Centrist 'Electability' Arguments Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org.

October 21, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning? French President Emmanuel Macron, whose popularity ratings (at around 18 percent) are well below Trump's, exited Paris yesterday for the Middle East, even as some neighborhoods of major French cities were still smoking. Supposedly, he is on a mission to bring down fuel prices. Bonne chance to that. The French mess is best understood in three dimensions that are all connected""the social, the economic, and the political. Socially, the protests, which caught the government by surprise in their ferocity, are mainly symptoms. The most severe riots since the famous events of 1968 began with high school students, who are ostensibly fed up with tattered schools and inadequate materials. But what they are really despairing about is the absence of life chances and hope.

October 21, 2026 at 2:49 PM EDT
It Should Be a Rescue Flight; Docs Show It Will Be Another Immigrant Expulsion

It Should Be a Rescue Flight; Docs Show It Will Be Another Immigrant Expulsion Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. This story has been updated.

October 21, 2026 at 12:05 PM EDT
A Major Roger Marshall Donor Is a Hospital Bandit

A Major Roger Marshall Donor Is a Hospital Bandit This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. This is part one of a two-part story. Read part two here.

October 21, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT
Roger Marshall Boosted Pesticide Products His Wife Is Invested In

Roger Marshall Boosted Pesticide Products His Wife Is Invested In This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. This is part two of a two-part story. Read part one here.

October 21, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
ICE Profiteers Trying To Buy the Senate for Republicans

ICE Profiteers Trying To Buy the Senate for Republicans Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Only three months had passed since Johan Sebastia'n Dura'n Guerrero was killed by a federal immigration agent in Maine, and the state's Republican senator, Susan Collins, had already forgotten his name. Guerrero was driving to work on July 13 when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent David Brouillette demanded he stop his car, then shot him to death through the windshield while Guerrero's wife and 3-year-old daughter watched. Guerrero was 25 years old. His last words were "I tried to stop."

October 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Military Might Have To Economize for Once

The Military Might Have To Economize for Once Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Defense stocks tumbled this week, reportedly on fears that Democrats are going to win a sweeping victory in the upcoming midterm elections, and Donald Trump is not going to get the $500 billion increase in military spending that he has asked for. Will no one think of poor old Raytheon?

October 20, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
Why Putin Is Now Our Ally

Why Putin Is Now Our Ally A headline on a piece that ran in today's New York Times Science section""When a Gun Owner Shows Early Signs of Dementia"""struck me as a statement of a problem writ small that we all now must encounter daily in its writ large version: When a president of the United States, who controls massive armed services and police forces and who's already prey to narcissism and sociopathy, shows signs of growing mental inability to understand reality, thereby removing the last remaining checks on his narcissism and sociopathy.

October 20, 2026 at 10:46 AM EDT
Organized Money: How Gamers Are Organizing For Consumer Rights

Organized Money: How Gamers Are Organizing For Consumer Rights For years, gamers and the gaming industry have been a testing ground for many of the topics we regularly discuss on Organized Money: digital licenses standing in for true ownership; unending subscriptions; dark patterns; endless consolidation; and more. Now gamers are organizing to fight corporate greed. Today, David Dayen and Laurel Kilgore speak with Otis East, a founding member of Players Alliance HQ, and Zefrine, a Sims content creator, about the gaming industry, and their work around the $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and its partners, including a "raid" on EA headquarters. As digital distribution gives publishers greater control over the games people buy, East and Zefrine argue that gamers need to organize to defend their rights and ensure that paying for a game still means owning it.