Prospect

Today on TAP: The money is not that huge, but the optics are terrible.

A labor-forward, no-nonsense style of Democratic campaigning is emerging in the Plains and Midwest. It’s unclear if it’ll actually work.

Both Trump and Harris unveiled a mix of new economic policies last week. Only some were appalling.

The big goal is to just fund the government through the end of September. Guess what, Republicans are going to make that a problem.

David Dayen and Robert Kuttner discuss Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

Today on TAP: Even Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan were less perversely hawkish than current Fed chair Jay Powell, as Barney Frank reminds us.

Far-right legal crusader Jonathan Mitchell thought that a local ordinance was key to create standing in the Supreme Court.

Kamala Harris has touted debt cancellation for defrauded students. But two years after cancellations were announced, some borrowers are still being harassed for payment.

Companies that belong to the California Trucking Association pay lip service to climate action, but CTA is suing to block the state’s clean fuels rule.

Today on TAP: Its CEO reacts to Biden’s rejection of its sale to Nippon by vowing to lay waste to Pittsburgh.

The Steward yacht collector tells Bernie Sanders that testifying next week could jeopardize ‘patient care,’ or something; meets bipartisan contempt.

If you read their surveys, they say they need access to credit. Nevertheless, Kamala Harris wants to give small businesses a deduction.

A state supreme court decision could boil down to an all-or-nothing gambit.

Today on TAP: Will better-than-average mobilization of the potential Democratic base rescue Harris-Walz from a cliff-hanger election?

This story has been retracted.

Rochester wants to establish the first public bank in the United States in over a century.

Eos’s Pittsburgh-area battery plant got subsidies aimed at ‘good clean jobs.’ Its workers say they’re getting fired for unionizing.

Today on TAP: But even the massive demonstrations weren’t enough to get Bibi to shut down the war to which his own job security is linked.

Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.

How concerned should we be about tactics to impair voting? And what should be done to resist?