Prospect

Joe Biden, from a position of weakness, is trying to cut a punitive deal on border policy without the House.

Evidence suggests that people simply hate inflation as such. Luckily, it is coming down fast.

After the biggest companies used mergers a decade ago to dominate, now the lower-tier competitors are getting into the game. But they face headwinds from federal regulators.

Today on TAP: If Israel keeps endangering itself by rejecting a two-state solution, no level of U.S. aid will keep it safe.

Negotiations went off the rails and barely recovered, if that.

We need a democratic process for appointing leaders of regional Fed banks.

The caucus is recommending that members vote against the perennial defense authorization bill, in part because it could extend warrantless spying through this Congress.

Today on TAP: Harvard keeps President Claudine Gay; New York redistricting could flip the House; Biden finally gets publicly tougher with Bibi.

The Israeli government gives every indication that it intends to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip.

Derek Beres and Nato Green discuss Republican plans for the future.

The Federal Reserve won’t talk about it. A new study shows why they must.

The anti-choice mask comes off in Texas.

Care for children, the elderly and disabled is among the lowest-paying industries. Poo thinks federal investment could become reality.

Today on TAP: Disgruntled ex-FTC employees dishing to mainstream media aside, the public understands the rampant use of Big Tech monopoly power.

A new national security task force has initiated 250 prosecutions, mostly against Palestinian students. Detainees have been held in maximum security prisons for weeks.

Speaker Mike Johnson inserted a four-month extension of a warrantless spying program into the annual defense policy bill.

As the debacle in Dubai demonstrates, the oil companies and their OPEC allies are the last people we can trust to solve climate change.

Today on TAP: The Trumpian right discovered antisemitism only when it needed a cudgel to bash the Ivies.

Its brutal war on Gaza is turning it into a pariah state and risking regional war.

Joe Biden has been an excellent president, but is also, I fear, the candidate least able to defeat Donald Trump. Other Democrats need to enter the race.