Prospect

How Democrats went from unanimous opposition to an unpopular policy to doing nothing about it in the five years since it became law.

A Prospect symposium on judicial review and the separation of powers

For all its imperfections, the Court is the one branch of government structured to protect minority rights.

Which we can alter only with politics

Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.

Professor William Clare Roberts considers Marx, socialism, and political theory.

Today on TAP: Negotiations with Joe Manchin are over. Let’s keep it that way.

New surveys provided exclusively to the Prospect show that Americans agree with the words Jimmy Carter spoke on this day 43 years ago.

The president’s proposal to restart fossil fuel projects would abdicate his responsibility to ensure the laws are faithfully executed.

CNN’s interview with self-proclaimed coup-meister John Bolton, assessing the January 6th insurrection, airily passed over some horrific U.S. misdeeds.

Today on TAP: California Gov. Newsom announces that the state will make and distribute insulin at cost.

What will it take for Democratic leadership to cry foul?

Systems are surviving hybrid work schedules, but personal and fleet safety issues also influence the transit options that riders use—or desert.

A looming strike and struggles with a proposed merger could reflect a reckoning for the rail industry’s determined efforts to squeeze capacity.

Today on TAP: And hiking interest rates when real wages lag far behind inflation is a dirty trick.

It’s bad policy and worse politics.

Poor working conditions, low pay, and risk to personal safety characterize life at the more than 35,000 dollar stores in the U.S.

Taking shots at the Democratic Party regulars who do the work is very unhelpful.

A high-octane power grid is hitting its limits.

The January 6th Committee shows Trump knew who he was inviting to D.C. and knew what they were capable of.