For the overwhelming majority, the American Dream is a cruel illusion. Distrust is rampant. Our institutions are delegitimized. Our democracy is hollow. We are now a plutocracy. Professor Mehrsa ...

Wonder Land: In 2016 they lay down in the street to stop traffic. In 2024 they had cookies and milk. Photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Mark Wilson/Getty Images Inflation is remaking America—again. It looms ...

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org. The past few years have seen a widespread move away ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. If there was any place in America where President Joe Biden’s economic ...

The promise of neoliberalism was to liberate individuals from state regulation to better enable individuals to succeed in market competition. Firms’ profits would increase, and wealth would trickle ...

The Chicago Boys and the tragedy of the Chilean coup. A new book examines how a group of University of Chicago–trained economists sought to remake the Chilean economy in the aftermath of 1973.

What Did Conservatives Conserve Before 1955? Like any fictional villain, neoliberalism has been given a nefarious origin story. Arecent academic study has found a new bogeyman on campus: ...

Pope Francis continues to govern and lead the Catholic Church from his hospital bed in Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, where he has been for 18 days. Despite two health crises in the past two weeks—a ...