stLouISTAt NYC’s MAGA Clubhouse, Libertarians Are Left in the Cold
The subsector of the economic far right that actually likes immigration is not enthused by the dawn of a new Trump era.
Prospect
Executive Action Reaction: Day 3
Explaining what Donald Trump is up to
The End of Birthright Citizenship?
Trump’s order is unlawful and unconstitutional under current law, but that’s not the point.
Is Florida’s Migration Tide Turning?
Young people are leaving the state, and climate change’s impacts on the cost of living are contributing factors.
Child Death Sparks Reconsideration of Private Equity–Owned Affordable Housing
A two-year-old died in Section 8 housing in Pittsburgh, in one of over 130 federally subsidized properties owned by private equity firm Vitus.
Executive Disorder
President Musk is running the government like he ruined Twitter.
Executive Action Reaction: Day 2
Explaining what Donald Trump is up to
Will the Courts Enforce the Constitution Against President Trump?
If they don’t, the checks and balances that have defined our government since its inception will give way to one-man authoritarian rule.
Trump’s Big Choice on Drug Prices
By following through on Biden’s Medicare price negotiation program, he can take credit for prescription reductions. But Big Pharma doesn’t want that to happen.
Executive Action Reaction: Day 1
Explaining what Donald Trump is up to
Shlock and Awe
The Los Angeles fires shine a light on the wretched excess of the very rich.
Incarcerated Firefighters Battle L.A. Blazes While California Upholds Prison Slavery
Firefighting is a rare voluntary role, but the state’s other prisoners still have no choices, making the dangerous work in wildland fire camps more attractive.
Like Nosferatu, Trump Arrives
Loosing the world’s richest rats on his country
DOJ Closes Tulsa Massacre Probe as Trump Takes Office
Investigators made solid progress in just three months, but the case is now mothballed.
Faiz Shakir Would Like the DNC to Do Something
The former Bernie Sanders campaign manager wants to run the Democratic National Committee because he doesn’t feel like it has a purpose right now.
Joe Biden’s Cautionary Farewell
He warned about the threats to American democracy. As did Eisenhower. As did Washington. And all three warned us about Elon Musk.
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Equal Rights for All, 1,458 Days Late
On our live show, David and Ryan talk about the uneven end to the Biden era and the ominous Trump presidency looming in the distance.
How China Dominates Global Shipbuilding
Today on TAP: And the strategic challenge facing the always-conflicted Donald Trump
The Essential Incoherence of the End of the Biden Presidency
One reason the president goes out with low approval ratings is that his agenda was internally contradictory.
Fire Sale
Luxury real estate brokers want Los Angeles to cancel a mansion tax for damaged homes so they can feed off them.