Prospect

Why have new Trek shows so often fallen flat?

Stop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.

Republicans want to expand the CRA into much of what the executive branch does. They may live to regret that.

DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.

Colorado’s Democratic legislature is passing a bill to make worker organizations more feasible. But will the Democratic governor sign it?

His projection of a U.S. manufacturing boom behind tariff walls leaves out retaliation by other countries and a trade war.

Today on TAP: Cory Booker’s marathon speech showed the party that resistance might be good policy and politics.

Today is billed as ‘Liberation Day,’ as Trump plans to unveil his master tariff program at 4 p.m. The details are still obscure, even to Trump.

A really bad night for Elon Musk

Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.

Nothing like a military crisis to break the fetish for balanced budgets.

The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service has been destroyed. It provided free collective-bargaining mediation and saved hundreds of millions of dollars in labor costs.

Today on TAP: The ‘race-centered’ Smithsonian exhibits are bad, but there’s nothing race-centered in restoring Confederate statuary.

The capital city of Nebraska will have to change its name.

In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.

That challenge is key to winning back voters who deserted the Harris-Walz ticket in 2024. Some rank-and-file members are calling for something new.

Trump’s energy policy is hurting red states. Do they care?

Today on TAP: Its law school faculty shames the university’s general strategy of appeasement.

Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating Gaza.

Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.