Prospect

The fiscal distress Republicans are inflicting on residents of the nation’s capital is unprecedented, and it will hit human services the hardest.

House Republicans plan to cut a staggering $300 billion from SNAP, far more than they’d originally planned.

Facebook has exposed Americans and American security to Chinese surveillance.

Cronyism is threatening American innovation.

Today on TAP: Trump and his appointees are making the airport mess worse. But it would be a mistake to pin this crisis entirely on him.

For centuries, the writ of habeas corpus—a fundamental protection against unlawful imprisonment—has remained a core fixture of democratic governance. Suspending it would defy the Constitution, but Trump is weighing his options.

She was poised to claim the presidency, but Joe Biden and a disastrous campaign defeated her.

President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.

Today on TAP: Last week, Trump fired the three Democrats on the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and is sacking much of the staff.

It’s the flip side of Trump’s DEI for incompetent white people.

The author and academic speaks about an apocalyptic future and strategies for survival.

Today on TAP: It’s the usual script—create a crisis, then back off and claim victory.

There is so much unfinished business that some Republicans in Washington are saying the unsayable: Just drop it.

By his deeds, and by choosing the name of the last Pope Leo, the new pope’s Catholicism appears Christian—and even social—democratic.

Not only are more communications being swept up as part of the war on drugs, but dissenters against government activities could also be targeted.

On our live show, David and Harold Meyerson look at the one big beautiful bill, crypto, the pope, and more.

Today on TAP: How to contain Trump and defend democracy? What to stand for affirmatively as an opposition party?

The president’s lunatic tariffs are jacking up prices all over the place.

Public officials at all levels are propping up a Texas Bitcoin mining boom that’s threatening water and energy systems while afflicting locals with noise pollution.

The Musk-damaged agency is unlikely to investigate whether Trump and his allies are profiting from advance knowledge about tariff changes or meme coin shenanigans.