Prospect

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.

Antelmo Ramirez was a dad, grandpa, and husband. His death by hyperthermia is absent from a Tesla report required as part of a Travis County tax deal.

Today on TAP: The run on regional bank stocks will bring tighter regulation and lower interest rates.

On today’s X-Date, the epidemic of buck-passing breaking out in the nation’s capital

This time, Hollywood’s striking writers think they may just win. Will cross-union solidarity be enough?

On the heels of groundbreaking federal prison phone call legislation, public utility commissions across the country can also regulate exploitative prison telecoms.

The Democratic members are trying to stop implementation of a system that could cut worker pay by thousands of dollars.

Today on TAP: Better regulation would head off dubious rescues that only increase bank concentration.

On today’s X-Date, looking at what could actually be accomplished in bipartisan talks yields few answers.