Prospect

On today’s X-Date, how the relationship between Punchbowl News and Kevin McCarthy is driving a bad resolution to the debt ceiling crisis

Aaron Regunberg has a shot to win a congressional special election in Rhode Island this fall, but a left-wing group has blasted him for not being progressive enough.

Today on TAP: Stock buybacks hit new records last year. They should be banned outright.

On today’s X-Date, how passing a bill gave Kevin McCarthy a momentary advantage that has yet to be counteracted

Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.

The Biden administration is promoting a new liquefied natural gas complex on the Pacific Coast, with expanded subsidies from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act.

Today on TAP: Doctors in Philly and auto (well, actually, bus) workers in rural Georgia both go union big-time.

On today’s X-Date: Watch out for Act II, the annual budget process for the new fiscal year that begins October 1, when Democrats will be playing a weaker hand.

Half of Americans, namely homeowners, already have rent control. It’s time to expand it to everyone.

The supposed mistreatment of an article that criticized leftist assaults on scientific objectivity was itself a fake. Why did the editors of The New York Times take this fraud seriously?

Kuttner on TAP: Should he go all out to support domestic manufacture, or keep the flow of solar panels coming from China?

In search of a deal on energy (and maybe the debt ceiling), the White House puts the West Virginia senator at the center of the action.

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.