Prospect

On our live show, David and Hassan assess the Eric Adams scandal, and the state of the rule of law in a country with liberty and justice for some.

Today on TAP: Should liberals and federal judges take the high road against Trump and get pummeled?

The administration’s indiscriminate attacks on so-called ‘DEI’ will also harm his own base.

The president’s handpicked prosecutors balked at an openly corrupt legal bailout for New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff in the early Trump period.

Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.

Today on TAP: The Trump-Musk war on federal workers zeroes in on agencies that document facts that may run counter to Trump’s fantasies.

What happened to Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi?

The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.

Playing with fragile commercial real estate is like playing with fire.

With elections upcoming, the Conservatives had started measuring the drapes, but didn’t anticipate America’s new president shattering their country’s politics.

Today on TAP: What happens when democracy so badly fails to deliver the goods that the citizenry freely choses dictatorship?

It would take food and medicine from the poor and give the money to the rich. But there’s nothing even approaching consensus among Republicans.

Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.

It turns out that you can’t just turn the government off and then back on again.

The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.

Today on TAP: While expelling nonwhite refugees here legally, he invites in white South Africans who say they don’t want to come.

The situation reveals that sometimes, even arsonists need the building they’re burning down to stay upright.

As long as nobody will stop him, why wouldn’t he?

The new 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum, directed mainly at China, are partially worthwhile, but were undercut by allowing Nippon Steel to buy into U.S. Steel.