Prospect

Check out this week’s exit polls: The party’s defining positions don’t command popular support.

The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.

Today on TAP: The FTX debacle shows that crypto is less an industry than it is a scam.

Janet Mills thwacked Trumpist Paul LePage on a good night for Democratic women in New England.

With the GOP likely to take over the House, Democrats can use the lame duck to effectively eliminate the debt limit and the leverage Republicans would wield.

A Latina pediatrician running on protecting abortion rights, creating renewable-energy jobs, and expanding health care access beats a former state secessionist.

In blue states and red, voters backed reproductive freedoms in the midterm elections.

In face of high-profile GOP push to claw back power in Texas’s largest county, Democrats expanded their power.

Sane parties change their tune when they lose repeatedly. The GOP is not sane.

Democrats didn’t always put corporate concentration issues into the foreground, but it was in the mix in key races.

With candidates who personified the Republicans’ lunatic rage, the GOP’s midterm hopes were unceremoniously dashed.

Do Democrats really want their next leader to be compromised and corporate?

Democrats did well enough to prevent a red wave.

Today on TAP: DeSantis tries to bar the feds from enforcing voting rights, in the spirit of John C. Calhoun and our last two chief justices.

Democrats are belatedly addressing the concerns of working families. Will it come too late?

Unfounded Fed tightening myths are backfiring on the economy.

We talk to Martin Oberman, the lead regulator for the rail industry, which has contributed mightily to supply chain woes by taking its cues from Wall Street.

Today on TAP: What will it take to hold onto it? The parallels and cross-influences are ominous.

Real talk about abortion, the economy, and crime from the heart of Abigail Spanberger’s tightly contested district.

Jamie McLeod-Skinner ousted a seven-term incumbent—now comes the hard part.