Prospect

Every five years, the farm bill brings together Democrats and Republicans who are normally at each other’s throats. The result is the continued corporatization of agriculture.

By opposing an injunction in the main lawsuit challenging the debt ceiling, the president has deliberately boxed himself into negotiations with legislative terrorists.

As Disney cancels investments in Florida, the proxy culture war masks a battle between a governor pretending to slay big business and a mega-corporation wanting to entrench its power.

Today on TAP: Two Prospect pieces on red and blue trifecta states make clear we really are two separate nations.

Ryan Cooper joins to talk about how Biden has boxed himself in.

Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.

Exhibit A is long-depressed upstate New York.

Today’s X-Date: GOP members insist they’re worried about the national debt. It ain’t true.

Bill Fletcher argues that the American left should support efforts to fend off Russian aggression.

Today on TAP: Even if we can avert ill-advised budget concessions as part of a debt ceiling deal, it will take more radical policies to improve the life prospects of workaday Americans.

Congress’s power to make contracts does not come with the power to renege on them.

Jenny Yang and Rotimi Adeoye join to discuss the Trump conviction, Supreme Court corruption, and more.

On today’s X-Date: The White House and its allies are acting like they must avoid a legal battle over the debt ceiling. Too late.

Particularly (but not only) in Texas, Republican state legislatures’ response to liberal cities is to strip them of all power.

Progressives in the North Star State have racked up a remarkable set of victories.

Today on TAP: The senator exposes the corrupt connection between the biggest banks and their docile regulators.

Transphobes cite Finland as proof that trans activists have gone too far. It isn’t true.

Plaintiffs claiming that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional didn’t file a motion for immediate relief. Therefore, the case has sat dormant.

The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.

The new film charts the conflict between making a good product and pleasing investors.