Prospect

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.

Today on TAP: Well, provided some of the sacked Twitterati and alternative funders establish a non-Elonized forum.

After failing to stop Democrat Summer Lee’s primary bid, the pro-Israel group is now helping Republicans put the seat into play.

In Orange County, California, Republican Michelle Steel is painting her opponent as a tool of China with unhinged red-baiting attacks.

It’s the variable that matters most, but you won’t see it in most of the punditry predicting Democratic losses.

A democratic America took the air out of the Brazilian far right.

Today on TAP: Actually delivering for working people matters. It also matters whether elites support democratic institutions.

Corporate theft and fraud is not only tolerated by the GOP, it’s shielded. Yet Democrats rarely use this to attack Republican messaging on crime.

You can’t whip up a hysterical meltdown about crime without lots of crime happening.

Janet Mills and Paul LePage are no strangers to political acrimony in a race that is as much about inflation as it is abortion.

An alternate vision for how Democrats could bring the fight to the midterms by taking action in Congress and the White House

Facing a tough re-election campaign, the senior Democratic senator looks for a boost from a new national monument.

Today on TAP: Will the Fed take that health as a cue to keep strangling it?

As the Rio Grande Valley has shifted away from farmwork, progressive Democrats are outmatched in their efforts to turn out voters.

Over half of the Republican nominees in competitive House races have dipped into personal fortunes to fund their campaigns.

After the Honduran government fulfilled a campaign promise by moving to end an extreme form of special economic zone, two U.S. senators threatened to withdraw foreign aid to the country.