Prospect

A familiar sight: Congress abdicates its statutory and constitutional responsibility in matters of war and safeguards on foreign assistance.

Tom Tomorrow returns! His cartoon appears on TAP every Tuesday.

An aging, distempered electorate votes for their favorite aging, distempered candidate.

In libertarian America, causes like legalizing weed are the easy part. Reforms to constrain capitalism or enlarge social solidarity are far harder—and far more essential.

A new book shows that Uber was a symbol of a neoliberal philosophy that neglected public funding and regulation in favor of rule by private corporations.

The cultural rifts between urban and rural America are a constant of our history. When they also become economic, they become dangerous.

Today on TAP: Dr. King did that superbly. Can President Biden?

Today on TAP: Shame on Gary Gensler. And the coup against Katherine Tai.

Is it time for Biden to be Biden?

The minor tweak proposed to the CTC is less important than what the Democrats want to do after the Trump tax cuts expire in 2025.

How for-profit health insurers convince seniors to enroll in private Medicare plans

Today on TAP: Americans, it turns out, want to revive domestic manufacturing. Advantage, Biden.

The former president deserves every legal penalty that can possibly be imposed.

Deregulation has rendered station ownership caps meaningless. But a federal antitrust case and a new FCC majority offer one last chance to unwind broadcast consolidation.

Workers are celebrating minimum-wage increases around the country, but the new frontier is already creeping toward $20.

Environmentalists question the sustainability commitments made by Denver-based Civitas Resources.

Today on TAP: Must America go down with the Biden campaign?

He argues that the 14th Amendment allows him, a naturalized citizen, to serve as president. There’s a larger question at stake here about perfecting our Constitution.

And it’ll be fine, so long as Biden doesn’t get impeached, they implied.

The right’s long and all-too-unanswered war on liberal institutions claims a big one.