Prospect

Today’s X-Date: If the debt ceiling deal passes, the military budget goes up and IRS funding gets slashed. But if Congress doesn’t pass the subsequent spending bills, that reverses.

It’s already happening—mostly to the advantage of Beijing.

The likely consequences of Biden’s new immigration policy will be misery for thousands seeking refuge.

The Biden administration is trying to bottle up migrants south of the border. It isn’t working.

The court case involving the FDA approval of mifepristone revealed a little too much about the conservative movement’s aims.

An X-Date special: running down the details of the debt ceiling agreement.

Today on TAP: Biden’s debt negotiations are now caught between two contradictory strategies. Corporate Democrats add to the problem.

Stillwater prison authorities gave 44 incarcerated workers a raise and then, months later, said they had to pay it back. The incarcerated workers say it’s wage theft.

The emerging deal would allow congressional Republicans to enact savage cuts to federal spending without having to ever specify them.

Medical credit cards shift the burden of medical financing onto unsuspecting consumers who could have qualified for other means of payment.

The toll that caring for aging parents takes on their children can be allayed only by expanding our caring networks.

Historian David Broder talks about the roots and career of Giorgia Meloni.

The Florida governor took to Twitter to announce his campaign. It didn’t go well.

Today on TAP: To be introduced later today, this House bill would stop the massive diversion of corporate revenues into CEOs’ pockets.

The goals of domestic supply chains, good jobs, carbon reduction, and public input are inseparable.

Breaking up ERIC, the state election administration organization, could be the boldest attempt yet to destabilize national elections.

On today’s X-Date, remembering what Franklin Roosevelt did when faced with a potential Court decision that would blow up the economy: prepare to ignore it.

Biden officials are hawking an Alaska pipeline and gas export complex long seen as uninvestable. They promise skeptical investors sustained market access to Asia.

Today on TAP: Will the Biden administration help Big Tech undermine consumer regulation by the EU and Asian nations?

Today’s X-Date PM: If the White House is so interested in a bipartisan deal, it should include a mechanism to end these crises permanently.