Prospect

While senators demand investigation of insider trading, the DOJ is reportedly looking into massive fraud.

President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act was finally bringing jobs and industry back to the state. But not for long.

Trump seems to be destroying America’s innovation system, but he is really skewing it in favor of tech monopolies.

Just down the road from Lexington and Concord, American patriots scurried to defend their immigrant neighbors.

The private sector can’t match the value proposition of the National Weather Service, but companies work to entice Americans to pay up anyway. What happens if they can’t?

Today on TAP: The Republican budget reconciliation process has inched forward, but deep schisms remain. The course of least resistance is a massive increase in the deficit.

Elon Musk’s control of space is even more entrenched than it seems. What dangers could that lead to?

Colorado’s Democratic legislature voted to repeal the state’s de facto right-to-work law. On Friday, Gov. Jared Polis vetoed it.

He compelled MLB to drop its ethical standards to make Pete Rose eligible for the Hall of Fame.

On our live show, Ryan Cooper, Emma Janssen, and James Baratta look at proposed Republican cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, crypto, trains, and more.

Today on TAP: They would also massively destabilize the financial system.

Trump’s China policy is a chaotic mess that harms the U.S. far more than it harms the Chinese.

A new study reveals that large national landlords in Los Angeles are disproportionately evicting Black tenants.

In their third walkout, New Orleans nurses face a drawn-out contract fight. Observers say the president’s policies aren’t helping.

Today on TAP: Trump’s acceptance of a really cool $400 million 747 bribe raises no ethical issues for Old-Time Religion Johnson.

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.