Prospect

Today on TAP: What will it take to hold onto it? The parallels and cross-influences are ominous.

Real talk about abortion, the economy, and crime from the heart of Abigail Spanberger’s tightly contested district.

Jamie McLeod-Skinner ousted a seven-term incumbent—now comes the hard part.

What happened to Twitter could happen to any Silicon Valley company.

Democrats in general and Mayor Pete in particular should have highlighted the disastrous hands-off approach of Trump’s transportation secretary.

Twenty years after Congress passed the Help America Vote Act, Philadelphia and Berks County elections officials still have challenges providing election supports.

Today on TAP: The central bank needs to take a pause and give its past rate hikes time to work.

Aggressive antitrust enforcement is starting to notch some victories.

While candidates battle over book lists, kids fall behind in the classroom and worry about bullying and school shootings.

And the New York Times story notwithstanding, the attack had nothing to do with rising rates of San Francisco homelessness.

Today on TAP: But it’s kinda late, no?

The most effective issue for Republicans in this midterm is a result of Democratic elites failing to understand what their diverse base of working-class voters wants.

Ignoring the cost-of-living crisis, plus the erosion of Democratic Party infrastructure under Gov. Cuomo, means an uncomfortably close race in New York.

In Maine, mobilizing young voters focuses on preserving women’s reproductive freedoms.

Progressives should plan our fights against anti-democratic oligarchies with the explicit aim of becoming the dominant political force.

Today on TAP: How the pandemic sets back children’s learning

Jamelle Bouie talks about the political utility of national symbols and the better parts of American history.

In Nevada, Arizona, and Pennsylvania, the union has been talking to voters about progressive fixes to inflation for months, when Democrats didn’t know what to say.

George Logan would be the first Republican in Connecticut to win federal office in nearly two decades.

Question 4 would uphold a state law allowing undocumented residents to get driver’s licenses. Supporters are pitching it as a public-safety measure.