Prospect

Deb Haaland has been a remarkable secretary of the interior. But the future is about funding in Congress.

Today on TAP: The giant credit card company offers a textbook case in abuse of market power to buy off or crush potential competitors and reap excess profits at consumer expense.

Israel is starting a wider conflict.

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?

Where would Harris and Trump take antitrust enforcement?

Republicans can run, but they can’t hide from themselves.

Trump is promising major disruptions for small-town communities. Yet residents still favor him over Kamala Harris’s development and investment approach.

Today on TAP: He’ll speak at the Al Smith Dinner, while reviving the same hateful attacks that were levied against Smith.

The Biden-Harris administration sowed the seeds of a green American economy. A second Trump term would poison them.

Too much of the profession operates as the ideological department of predatory capitalism.

Sally Rooney on love and redemption

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: All polls are prisoners of subjective assumptions. As a great student of public opinion said, ‘Don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin.’

North Carolina Republicans nominated seemingly the most deranged pervert in the state for governor.

Trump would be unrestrained in a second term.

Robinson became famous for a viral comment at a city council meeting. His rhetoric is now coming back to haunt him.

Uber and Lyft are not opposing Question 3, which would give some bargaining rights to drivers but keep them as independent contractors without full labor protections.

David Dayen and Maureen Tkacik try their best to get through all of them.

Today on TAP: How many Republican voters appalled by pro-Nazi porn will desert North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson? And how many who respect Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine will desert Trump?

The case against Caremark, Express Scripts, and Optum Rx is the first against this element of the pharmaceutical transaction chain.