October 20, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
Michigan's Mike Rogers Got Big Payout Before Controversial Cybersecurity Firm Went Bankrupt

Michigan's Mike Rogers Got Big Payout Before Controversial Cybersecurity Firm Went Bankrupt This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. Co-published with the Center for Media and Democracy

October 20, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
A New Hope in Vermont

A New Hope in Vermont Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. BRATTLEBORO, Vermont - Amanda Janoo, improbably, might be the next governor of Vermont. Polling shows the 39-year-old economist and novice politician neck-and-neck with Republican Gov. Phil Scott, Vermont's chief executive since 2017. This is a seismic shift in a state where Scott until recently maintained approval ratings that reliably made him "America's most popular governor." But times are changing.

October 20, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Possible Socialism of Andy Burnham

The Possible Socialism of Andy Burnham Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. LONDON - Imagine that the U.S. had a gifted progressive president, with a common touch and a large majority in Congress. That's basically what Britain has today with its new prime minister, former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, whose Labour Party has a working majority of 167 seats in the House of Commons.

October 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
The Blob Celebrates Alan Greenspan

The Blob Celebrates Alan Greenspan Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan died last June 22 at age 100. Next Monday, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), of which he was a longtime member, is having a members-only celebration of Greenspan, in which "panelists who worked alongside himdiscuss his legacy and contribution to the American economy and society." Opening the panel will be former Treasury secretary and Clinton economic chief Robert Rubin, who is also former chair of CFR. Rubin epitomizes the Wall Street-Washington revolving door, having been a senior executive of Goldman Sachs before serving under Clinton, and then returning to Wall Street as a top Citigroup official""having used his government posts in between to promote the deregulation that allowed Citigroup to be both a commercial and investment bank.

October 19, 2026 at 10:32 AM EDT
Trump Administration Could Nullify California Internet Protections

Trump Administration Could Nullify California Internet Protections Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. On August 31, the Trump administration sent formal notice of a $1.42 billion grant to California to supply broadband access to 270,000 households and businesses, as authorized in the 2021 infrastructure law signed by President Biden. But if California Gov. Gavin Newsom accepts the award, the state must also agree to not enforce its nation-leading standards for broadband affordability and reliability for 14 years, forgoing mandatory low-income plans and other benefits that save consumers billions of dollars, as well as the strongest net neutrality and anti-throttling laws in the country.

October 19, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
Which Trumpies' Heads Will Roll Next?

Which Trumpies' Heads Will Roll Next? This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump first came to Americans' attention more than 20 years ago for gleefully firing all manner of people on his show The Apprentice. Today, even as every poll indicates that if there's one person Americans most want fired, it's Trump himself, Trump's own orgy of discharges continues apace. In the past week, both our ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Trump's blink-and-you-miss-her press secretary, Katie Zacharia, have been exited out. (Enterprising news producers might want to accompany the story of Zacharia's in-and-out tenure with clips of Groucho Marx's entrance song in Animal Crackers: "Hello, I Must Be Going.")

October 19, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
Rep. Becca Balint Eyes Top Position on the House Antitrust Subcommittee

Rep. Becca Balint Eyes Top Position on the House Antitrust Subcommittee Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) has thrown her hat in the ring for the chair position of the House Antitrust Subcommittee should Democrats regain control of Congress after the midterm elections, according to sources familiar with the matter. The expected announcement sets up a battle over how Democrats will challenge corporate power in the next Congress and beyond.

October 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM EDT
A Perfect Economic Storm

A Perfect Economic Storm On Wednesday, the Consumer Price Index for September came in hotter than expected. Inflation was up at an annual rate of 3.7 percent. Gasoline prices rose 34 percent over the past year, and home heating oil is up a staggering 74 percent.

October 16, 2026 at 1:18 PM EDT
Downvoting Data Centers in Maine

Downvoting Data Centers in Maine Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Data centers have complicated the midterm calculus for Democratic and Republican campaigns everywhere. But until this week, the subject hadn't had much of an impact on a tight Maine Senate contest dominated by immigration, war, and affordability issues like heating oil and housing.

October 16, 2026 at 5:30 AM EDT
The Week AI Blinked?

The Week AI Blinked? This article was featured in the Daily Prospect newsletter. Sign up for it here. This week, Character.AI, a former unicorn startup that allowed users to create virtual companions, announced it was filing for bankruptcy while selling its remaining assets to Disney. Bankruptcy is a convenient way to dodge accountability for the company's several active lawsuits and investigations into allegations that its chatbots posed as doctors and encouraged children into suicides. The asset purchase is also amusing, since Disney had previously sued Character.AI for deploying its characters for their chatbots.

October 16, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
Bill Huizenga Faces His Toughest Re-Election Race Yet

Bill Huizenga Faces His Toughest Re-Election Race Yet Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. ALLEGAN COUNTY, MICHIGAN - Right along the Kalamazoo River, local Republican leaders have set up shop in a temporary lower-level office. Volunteers stand by providing visitors with campaign literature and signs. Just a few minutes away, the Allegan County Democratic Party has a permanent headquarters. Inside, the handful of volunteers and visitors are energized. They see a unique opportunity: Eight-term congressman Bill Huizenga, representing the state's Fourth Congressional District, could lose to Democratic state Sen. Sean McCann, who hails from the nearby college town of Kalamazoo.

October 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Pentagon Buyout King

The Pentagon Buyout King Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Last week, Stephen Feinberg, the Pentagon's number two civilian official who manages much of the military's trillion-dollar budget, sat down for his first on-the-record newspaper interview in nearly two decades. Feinberg's "media shyness" has been a throwaway line in practically every article written about him. The only other major media appearance he allowed in his long tenure as CEO of one of Wall Street's most infamous private equity firms, Cerberus Capital Management, and a major figure in both Trump administrations, was in April 2008, when he sat down with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times.