Prospect

On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Robert Kuttner discuss Donald Trump’s deployment of troops in the nation’s capital, and his persecution of critics.

Today on TAP: The committee can either put the party on record opposing those sales, or regurgitate Biden’s do-nothing policy.

Many have warned that allowing D.C. to remain a disenfranchised colony would lead to disaster. They were right.

The ruling could end the siphoning of funds to private and parochial schools.

Indiana and Tennessee opted out of Summer EBT, which gives families grocery support when schools close for summer.

Today on TAP: The real fraud here is the misuse of confidential government data.

Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. It’s our financialized economy in miniature.

Lost in the crisis over Texas state lawmakers’ redistricting overreach is another contentious issue: the regulation of hemp-derived THC products.

Labor groups representing railroaders worry the move could muzzle frontline worker voices and make it easier for industry to shape regulation.

Today on TAP: Could Trump’s new commissioner, E.J. Antoni, succeed in disguising the worsening economic realities?

mRNA technology saved America’s bacon in 2020. Now RFK Jr. is defunding it.

Service members and their families would have to be notified about registered sex offenders on military bases.

Before DOGE’s lawbreaking spree, there was ‘blitzscaling.’

Today on TAP: New Orleans? Memphis? Baton Rouge? Jackson, Mississippi? Why aren’t their states’ Guards on patrol there?

Roger Alford, former number two at the Justice Department Antitrust Division, speaks out. Here’s what was important in what he said.

When you factor in all the data points, we have an anxious workforce, a business sector seeking opportunity in inflation, and an avalanche of bad policy bearing down on everyone.

Are we any closer to a peace deal in Ukraine after the latest White House meetings with Zelensky and European leaders?

With tourism sagging, Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo aims to elevate manufacturing, logistics, and tech. But Trump’s policies are hurting those industries, too.

Today on TAP: One silver lining: new unity and resolve on the part of democratic Europe

Doctors and medical researchers expect more outbreaks of infectious disease as the Trump administration crams thousands more people into miserable conditions.