Prospect

Today on TAP: The improbable rise of Zohran Mamdani and the prospect of rare unity on the left

Two deranged megalomaniacs think they own the American government. Of course they end up fighting.

Clean energy, state taxes, Medicaid, and much more are being debated.

The loss prevention industry is excited about using technology to combat shoplifting. But workers are getting caught up in the dragnet.

Three Democratic commissioners have been fired from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and Trump’s team has its eye on dismantling the agency entirely.

Today on TAP: The nominee to run OSHA ran Amazon’s abysmal worker safety program.

It will also increase the national debt by $2.4 trillion.

With factions determined to crater renewables, Congress could pick up where state lawmakers left off. But rest assured, the energy markets will strike back.

Buoyed by Trump’s deregulatory agenda, rail companies press for cost-cutting measures that could undermine railroad safety.

Today on TAP: Destroying American weather science will create a perfect storm of disaster.

Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst told a constituent, who feared health care cuts would lead to mass death, that ‘We all are going to die.’ That’s prompted a formidable challenge to her re-election.

The lessons no one learned from the World Central Kitchen massacre(s)

Democrats in Colorado’s legislature unanimously passed a bill reining in price-fixing software like RealPage. Once again, Gov. Jared Polis broke away from his party and vetoed it.

Today on TAP: Polls show support for liberal economic policies, as well as more support for Republicans than Democrats on matters economic.

If the spending bill is passed, an estimated three-quarters of eligible federal workers may be coerced into at-will employment.

Less than a year after ending the latitude federal agencies were previously given by courts to implement laws, the Court’s conservatives brought it back for infrastructure approvals.

Trump’s grand design for Fannie Mae ignorantly repeats a sordid history.

Today on TAP: Buried deep in the budget bill are devastating cuts.

In our first installment of ‘Trump’s Beautiful Disaster,’ we tee up the battle over the giant tax and spending bill in the Senate.

The House passed a measure to eliminate all state regulation of artificial intelligence for a decade. The last line of defense may be legislation from Sen. Chuck Grassley.