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A great deal of both the stock market boom and the surprising continued GDP and job growth rests on the artificial and unsustainable stimulus of the AI bubble. prospect.org?p=145364

Protesters gather outside the New Mexico Environment Department

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The key here is that on everything that matters, Trump and Republicans in Congress are fully aligned. prospect.org?p=145293

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The Trump administration’s election-rigging exercise isn’t quite panning out, but Missouri Republicans have tethered themselves to it just the same. prospect.org?p=145302

People opposing the congressional redistricting plan rally outside the Missouri Supreme Court

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026

Though marketed as relief for “mom-and-pop” lessors, private equity groups and other large institutional real estate investors have lined up hundreds of LLCs in the class action suit, demanding compensation over income they claim they lost during the eviction moratorium. prospect.org?p=145309

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It has been almost two weeks since the statutory deadline to declassify a potentially damningForeign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinion. prospect.org?p=145233

Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton testifies during his confirmation hearing

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026

The idea is to use a deep canvass to learn what’s on the minds of working families, and then distill the results into an explicit plan of action that reflects actual worker views rather than top-down policy wonkery. prospect.org?p=145220

Troy Jackson seated with other attendees at a labor council breakfast

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 24/09/2026

We are witnessing the collapse of antitrust enforcement at the federal level under the second Trump administration. prospect.org?p=145231

Oracle chairman Larry Ellison speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026

Harris performed dismally in the 2020 primaries because she wasn’t clear about what she stood for. She suffered from the same deficits when she became the party’s accidental nominee in 2024. prospect.org?p=145214

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026

Republicans know they're in trouble, so they are spending hard. prospect.org?p=145157

Texas Democratic congressional candidate Bobby Pulido speaks to supporters

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 23/09/2026

Rideshare giants Uber and Lyft each offer recourse for drivers facing deactivation, but drivers and their advocates across the country said that their appeals processes favor companies over drivers. prospect.org?p=145147

Uber and Lyft stickers are seen on a rideshare vehicle

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026

By the time this year’s primary season was winding down, corporations had already shelled out more than half a billion dollars in support of congressional candidates. prospect.org?p=145115

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026

With the cost of fighting is so high, and the world’s economy so entangled, war has never been more irrational. prospect.org?p=145094

Flame and smoke is seen rising from Moscow’s oil refinery

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 22/09/2026

Decades after Jim Crow battles over legal school desegregation, students continue to encounter discrimination that interferes with their ability to learn. prospect.org?p=145105

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The $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. will give the Ellison family control of two of America’s biggest media companies. prospect.org?p=145077

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In Kansas, data centers and the fiscal pressures posed by the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal raised voters’ collective blood pressure in the governor’s race between the two candidates, who are both state senators. prospect.org?p=145040

A group of people hold a Kansas City Chiefs jersey, with the Kansas State Capitol in background.

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Not only do 94 percent of Democratic voters support a universal public health insurance program, but so do a majority of moderate and independent voters. prospect.org?p=145030

Person attending a political rally holds up sign reading "Medicare for all"

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 19/09/2026

In January, Rep. Tom Tiffany called data centers “exciting new technology” and voted for a federal bill to speed their construction. By May, as he was running for governor of Wisconsin, he was promising to repeal the state tax breaks that lure them. prospect.org?p=145035

Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany talks to supporters

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The chain of events that led to the rapper Macklemore’s ejection from a concert tour for the sin of proclaiming “Free Palestine” before a screaming football stadium unfolded in trite and predictable fashion. prospect.org?p=144975

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Mark Carney’s trip to Brussels and speech to the European Parliament was purely performative. The press ate it up, and Trump took the bait. prospect.org?p=144938

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney next to the symbol of the EU

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It wasn’t so long ago that when a scary new technology burst onto the scene and raiseduncomfortable new social questions, lawmakers knew just what to do: call their in-house techthink tank to get some perspective. prospect.org?p=144899

Composite photo collage of thoughtful man instead head computer monitor screen think business strategy isolated on painted background

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If Donald Trump were some Hiroo Onoda–style holdout from the old Soviet Union, carrying out a decades-long communist plot to destroy America, it’s hard to imagine what he’d be doing differently from what he’s doing every day. prospect.org?p=144887

President Donald Trump speaks at a rally

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The DOGE operation was such an awful failure on its own terms that it’s been written out of the story of Trump’s second term to some degree. prospect.org?p=144878

Anti–Elon Musk, anti-DOGE posters on a fence

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With less than 50 days to go until the midterm elections, New York’s 17th Congressional District, is the only district that Kamala Harris won in 2024 where Republican PACs have been vastly outspending their Democratic counterparts. prospect.org?p=144897

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Photos of the "calming areas" shows evidence of a cover-up: a Potemkin Village carefully positioned to fool inspectors and hide a truth that was much, much worse. prospect.org?p=144827

Photos show two small cages with mesh sidings.

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No matter how limited U.S. officials claim their involvement in Yemen to be, these recent developments troublingly resemble the original American foray in the country more than a decade ago. prospect.org?p=144813

Houthi fighters in a open truck escort a convoy carrying freed prisoners

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Senate Democrats and a small group of Republicans delivered a devastating blow to the crypto world and their once-formidable political machine. prospect.org?p=144824

Black and white image of US Capitol with "CRYPTO" superimposed

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House Democrats are about to announce their “You Deserve Better” agenda that will include a range of initiatives they promise to pass if they win control of the House in November. prospect.org?p=144793

Marcher holds up a sign reading "Hands Off Healthcare"

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As the Iran war is not only failing to reach its goals but is leaving the U.S. stripped of key defensive weapons systems needed in other, more strategic theaters, it’s all too fitting that the secretary of war is fixated on appearances. prospect.org?p=144801

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James Talarico is polling consistently, if only marginally, ahead, while Beto O’Rourke did not. Maybe it’s time to become a believer. prospect.org?p=144752

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Our hyper-individualistic, market-obsessed culture has made us more isolated and less powerful. I think Donald Trump is a symptom of this spiritual unspooling. prospect.org?p=144738

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What’s been lost in all the stentorian pronouncements byfrontier developers like Anthropic and OpenAI about AI destroying humanity is that it’s intheir financial interest to slow down. prospect.org?p=144760

Stock market board with falling prices and "AI" indicator

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