Prospect

The incoming president has a plan to eviscerate the Senate’s ability to confirm nominees. We’ll soon see if it will work.

Community disinvestment, lack of economic opportunity, and rampant misinformation were a few of the chronic ills that kept Black Philadelphians from the polls.

Today on TAP: Purging generals, putting intelligence in the hands of a Putin-phile, turning Justice over to an alleged predator—we’re almost back in the USSR!

The second Trump administration will have a Potemkin cabinet and centralized power among the czars in the White House.

The last federal attempt to criminalize and expel undocumented immigrants was thwarted by a huge backlash. Could that happen again?

Kentucky voters soundly rejected sending taxpayer dollars to private schools, showing yet again that Kentuckians stand with public educators.

Today on TAP: His clumsy attempts at autocracy are already backfiring as Senate Republicans refuse to name Trump’s choice, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, as majority leader.

Republicans won the Rio Grande Valley for the first time since 1912. How?

Wall Street’s effort to keep Warren from becoming ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee did not succeed.

Trump was supposed to be in decline, losing it. He lost it all the way to the White House.

Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.

Today on TAP: Until December 31st, they can still confirm some Biden nominees to crucial regulatory and judicial posts.

His first administration was a farce. The second will be a tragedy.

Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.

November and December will nominally be about confirming judges and kicking the can on must-pass bills. More ambitious efforts probably aren’t happening.

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Today on TAP: After Kamala Harris’s defeat, the DNC chair should be a party-builder in the spirit of Howard Dean, whose service from 2005 to 2009 paved the way for Obama.

Exams to determine whether veterans qualify for certain benefits have been almost entirely privatized, and the companies conducting the exams have long been cited for poor quality.

Even though that perception is partly the creation of right-wing media, the Democrats surely need to hone their identity.

The billionaire class used the Gaza siege to purge leftists, and even left populism. Caught up in the wake were the cautious elites.