Prospect

More than halfway into the Biden administration, Democrats don’t have a majority at a key agency. The likely nominee to end that has plenty of experience but a corporate past.

Today’s X-Date: A two-year spending cap is going to harm millions of Americans.

Today on TAP: But don’t bet the farm on a saner monetary policy.

The private equity–owned ER doctor practice, now headed to bankruptcy, was one of the defining companies of 21st-century American medicine.

On today’s X-Date, liberals look to the courts to solve their intractable political problem. That spells trouble.

Want to apply for asylum? The government has an extremely janky app for that.

How two ‘Masters of Disaster’ helped Hollywood execs break the last writers strike

Today on TAP: J.D. Vance just voted for stronger rail regulations, and after the East Palestine spill, Ohio GOP House members will need to vote for them, too.

Professor Mark Paul explains how to fix America.

Today on X-Date: Axios, CNBC, and Punchbowl News work to normalize Republican legislative terrorism.

The starting point for negotiations with drug companies on prescription prices could end up being the too-high prices patients already live with.

Helen Gym is running for Philly mayor without giving in to war-on-crime temptations.

The DOE appears reluctant to use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to buy and sell crude oil in a way that would ‘step into a quasi-market management role.’

Today on TAP: Dylan Matthews’s screed attacking Biden’s industrial policies got an assist from former Treasury official Kimberly Clausing.

On today’s X-Date, the seeds for what is now a negotiation over how much of the budget to cut were sown during Obama’s ‘grand bargain’ phase.

Emails from the U.S. trade representative’s office show a cozy relationship with Amazon, Google, and Facebook.

While much of the funding to the ‘dark money’ behemoths tied to the leaders of Congress remains a mystery, a review of corporate disclosures reveals more of the companies that have donated.

Today on TAP: Though the public thinks he’s too old to serve a second term, Joe Biden keeps getting older. What should the Democrats do?

Biden’s administration, like his Democratic predecessors, isn’t prioritizing diversity in worldview when selecting federal judges.

Today on X-Date: Squint at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, and you see MAGA conservatives endorsing legislative hostage-taking.