Prospect

The Trump White House insists he’s a ‘special government employee.’ That designation has a time limit.

Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic.

Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.

Today on TAP: Fearing workers’ professionalism and workers’ rights, Republicans are going after both.

What’s behind his broadside against Joe Biden’s economics?

As fear mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the city rebuild and support their families.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

The trench warfare in sanctuary cities and states to protect innocent families from Trump’s ICE raids

A Biden-era CFPB rule limiting overdraft fees is under challenge, and lawmakers used bank lobbyists for their testimonials.

This is not about who’s been fired, but who’s still working in the government.

On our live show, David and Hassan assess the Eric Adams scandal, and the state of the rule of law in a country with liberty and justice for some.

Today on TAP: Should liberals and federal judges take the high road against Trump and get pummeled?

The administration’s indiscriminate attacks on so-called ‘DEI’ will also harm his own base.

The president’s handpicked prosecutors balked at an openly corrupt legal bailout for New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Consumer sentiment is falling off a cliff in the early Trump period.

Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.

Today on TAP: The Trump-Musk war on federal workers zeroes in on agencies that document facts that may run counter to Trump’s fantasies.

What happened to Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi?

The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.

Playing with fragile commercial real estate is like playing with fire.