stLouISTAIPAC’s Surprising Salvo in Orange County
A swing seat in California is seeing a flurry of attack ads from pro-Israel forces. Why?
Prospect
Reversing Private Equity’s Looting of Hospitals
The right remedy is to claw back the billion-dollar payday Cerberus Capital and other insiders took out of Steward Health Care and give the money back to the hospitals.
The Stakes of Rafah
Over a million Palestinians, pushed to the brink of Gaza at the border crossing with Egypt, now face aerial bombardment by the Israeli military.
Valentine’s Cards
Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World
Trump to the Rescue
Today on TAP: Yes, it’s a low bar, but Biden is the picture of cognitive clarity compared to Trump.
NY-03 Special Election Tests Jacobs’s ‘Long Island Strategy’
Tuesday’s primary to fill George Santos’s seat is a toss-up, despite an experienced former Democratic congressmember facing a largely unknown Republican.
100 Years Ago Today: Savage Nativism. And ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’
On the bigotry and diversity inherent in the world’s foremost nation of immigrants
Big Tobacco Outmaneuvers the FDA on Flavored Nicotine Products
On menthol and disposable vapes, public-health activists say the regulatory agency is moving way too slow.
The House Republican Pratfall
They tried and failed to impeach DHS Secretary Mayorkas on nonsense charges.
A Partisan Hit Job on President Biden
Today on TAP: Special Counsel Hur’s gratuitous digs at Biden’s age and memory
Blowing the Door Off Boeing’s ‘Epstein Deal’
The lawyer who busted open Jeffrey Epstein’s sweetheart deal sues DOJ for the goods on Trump’s slimy deferred prosecution agreement with the 737 manufacturer.
Durbin Must Enforce His SCOTUS Investigation Subpoenas
The Court’s own precedents show that its corruption scandals are exactly why Congress has subpoena power.
Bayard Rustin—Out of the Shadows
A new movie, a new book, and an old nonviolent warrior now given his rightful recognition
My Very Own American Dictatorship
If I ruled the world …
Stop Trump? Who, Us?
Today on TAP: The Supreme Court finds several reasons not to keep Trump off the ballot.
Bernie Sanders Isn’t Thankful for High Drug Prices
Another in a series of hearings with pharma CEOs takes place today.
From Flint to East Palestine and Back
Ohio and Pennsylvania residents want the tools to study long-term health impacts from the 2023 freight train derailment. But East Palestine hasn’t seen the money.
Judges Who Were Consumer or Worker Advocates? Not Many.
Biden has diversified the bench by many metrics, but corporate-side attorneys still fill most federal judgeships.
Water Democracies
Four-hundred-year-old acequia systems of the Southwest are changing how communities cope with water scarcity.
The GOP Clown Show on Border Security
Today on TAP: Who gains politically if the bipartisan border bill stays blocked? The losers are the vast majority of voters who want the crisis solved.