Prospect

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.

As access to gambling expands, concerns about addiction among young people have increased.

The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S.

On our live show, David and Ryan Cooper discuss Signalgate, which blue states are making the most of their power, and why Norway’s sovereign wealth fund should divest from Tesla.

Today on TAP: Opposition to Trump is growing. That will embolden more opposition.

First the gutted CFPB pronounced ‘Whites Only’ marketing legal again. Now Boeing wants to renege on the sweetheart deal of the century.

Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are incoherent, but that should not discredit targeted tariffs paired with investment as a policy lever.

Its vast sovereign wealth fund owns nearly 36 million Tesla shares. Better get out while the getting is good.

A MAHA mom’s guide

Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.

Citing a century of precedent, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter kick off a process destined for the Supreme Court.

The new book from Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson reviewed.

The real targets of the war on DEI include civil rights enforcement, federal outlays that serve Black communities, and Black workers in and out of government.

How shall we redeem the deferred promise of civil rights and racial justice?

The document from a state fusion center cites high health care costs as a key source of instability in the country.

The figure who tagged a journalist into a Signal chat about the attack on Yemen also failed to set his Venmo to private, revealing his willingness to engage with reporters of all political stripes.

Today on TAP: As Trump continues trying to rule by decree, wreck public institutions, and intimidate his opposition, we need to be strategic in restraining him.