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It took the State Department four days to assess the well-being of American citizens apprehended by Israel for participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Could the cure be more economic populists running as independents?

Today on TAP: The political establishment in California saw their moment and pounced.

A federal judge calls out the Trump administration’s “simply unreliable” portrait of the city, while a group of former governors deconstructs the constitutional threats.

A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

In the 1970s, corporate America struck back at the forces attempting to rein it in. One of their tactics was a public service announcement.

Today on TAP: It's hard to kill America's most loved program outright—so Trump is strangling it by stealth.

On our live show, David and The Majority Report's Sam Seder talk about the ongoing government shutdown and the backlash to Democratic gerontocracy.

Public pressure and partisan attacks have yielded some new cases, and citizens are waking up to corporate power’s harms.

Crypto executives are selling investors fractions of buildings in yet another scheme to reinvent an existing activity and say rules don’t apply because it’s on the blockchain.

Here’s what to expect in the midterm elections.

Today on TAP: Realists (Mamdani, AOC) seek immersion in mass politics; fundamentalists oppose it.

Why are moderate liberals so unable to meet the moment?

But if Democrats don’t demand that he honor any budget deal, they will lose the war even if they win the battle.

The president told MAGA voters exactly what he was going to do in 2024. Now he is doing it.

Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.

He is doing a lot better than you might think.

While adding funding for historically Black colleges and universities, Trump’s Education Department is simultaneously cutting funding to colleges that primarily serve minorities.

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

On Friday, state regulators voted unanimously in favor of allowing private equity to take a Duluth-based utility holding company private. The Prospect takes you inside the room where it all went down.