Prospect

It’s the return of rotten boroughs, railroad barons, and constant graft.

As new immigration fees take effect, aspiring Americans who meet all the legal requirements could be priced out.

Today on TAP: Both challenged American smugness, one with satire and the other with great journalism.

Indiana is among several states restricting the purchase of sugary foods with nutrition assistance funds.

Workers are overheating on the job, even in blue states. A proposed federal rule could help—but the Trump administration might abandon it.

Thousands of VA health care workers have been fired. Private-sector replacements will be worse.

Pam Bondi’s old lobbying firm, Ballard Partners, pushed to move through a business travel merger. Bondi’s DOJ did it, in a way that avoids judicial scrutiny.

Today on TAP: Alina Habba’s sneaky reappointment as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey violates the law, says a criminal defendant, who wants his case thrown out as a result.

Joe Biden brought factories and jobs back with his climate program. Then Trump repealed it.

Nearly everyone wants the NFL team back in Washington, but it won’t be cheap.

Trump’s ‘free’ gift from Qatar, a new Air Force One that he keeps after leaving office, is absorbing a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded upgrades.

Lobbyist meddling to get a critical merger case approved could face sunlight thanks to a 1974 law called the Tunney Act, which allows a judge to investigate the outcome.

Today on TAP: His game is to intimidate, prevail in the headlines, and sacrifice details in the fine print.

The new chair of the Progressive Caucus wants to do for Democrats what he did for construction workers in Texas.

You don’t have to pay for contractors or a grid hookup.

Why are the people being paid to fix the problems DOGE created also taking money from Musk?

On our live show, David and Emma Janssen discuss the ways Republicans try to stealthily cut down social services, the Make America Healthy Again movement, and more.

Today on TAP: Despite Columbia’s deal with Trump, there is no guarantee that he won’t make new demands tomorrow.

Gaza is being deliberately starved. The West Bank is next.

The resetting of priorities will have tragic consequences.