Prospect

Why Democrats win the cities and lose the states, and what to do about it.

Today on TAP: With luck, his fall will take the whole crypto sector with him.

The restraint of congressional overrides is probably gone.

A long-overdue effort to contest Republican dominance of state legislatures is bearing fruit.

The IRS and Treasury should ensure that companies receiving tax credits stick to the labor standards in the Inflation Reduction Act.

The path to climate stability lies only in inviting working people in partnership on solving this pressing challenge.

Ed Burmila comes on to discuss Democrats’ surprising performance.

The 2022 midterms were stunning as much for what didn’t happen as for what did.

Check out this week’s exit polls: The party’s defining positions don’t command popular support.

The newly released memoir from Rolling Stone’s guiding genius isn’t where you’d go for facts, as such, but if there were a Pulitzer for name-dropping, it’d win going away.

Today on TAP: The FTX debacle shows that crypto is less an industry than it is a scam.

Janet Mills thwacked Trumpist Paul LePage on a good night for Democratic women in New England.

With the GOP likely to take over the House, Democrats can use the lame duck to effectively eliminate the debt limit and the leverage Republicans would wield.

A Latina pediatrician running on protecting abortion rights, creating renewable-energy jobs, and expanding health care access beats a former state secessionist.

In blue states and red, voters backed reproductive freedoms in the midterm elections.

In face of high-profile GOP push to claw back power in Texas’s largest county, Democrats expanded their power.

Sane parties change their tune when they lose repeatedly. The GOP is not sane.

Democrats didn’t always put corporate concentration issues into the foreground, but it was in the mix in key races.

With candidates who personified the Republicans’ lunatic rage, the GOP’s midterm hopes were unceremoniously dashed.

Do Democrats really want their next leader to be compromised and corporate?