Prospect

Today on TAP: A federal judge rules that Trump needs to show that a rebellion is really taking place in order to call in the army.

Today on TAP: A federal judge rules that Trump needs to show that a rebellion is really taking place in order to call in the army.

State power brokers step up as a paralyzed Congress bows out.

The Treasury secretary has gutted the most important anti-corruption reform legislation in a generation—the 2020 Corporate Transparency Act.

Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.

Cory Doctorow’s ‘Enshittification’ describes how tech platforms (and everything else) went down the sewer. Hint: It rhymes with ‘deshmegulation.’

Today on TAP: Strong-arming Bibi into a hostage/cease-fire agreement is the easy part.

While Trump, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos seek to nullify worker rights, a Los Angeles court last week forced Bezos’s company to document the truth.

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

Basing the shutdown on health care is risky. Republicans want a farm bailout too, and that could provide a path to reframing the shutdown as about stopping Trump’s power grabs.

The Debt Collective is leading the charge against the real estate behemoth Equity Residential.

On our live show, David and writing fellow Naomi Bethune discuss Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the expiration of Microsoft’s Windows 10, and the government shutdown.

Today on TAP: A crucial political meeting in Paris today will force a choice between a popular wealth tax and a deepening political crisis.

The Trump administration is selling out America’s national parks. Keeping them open during the shutdown makes them dangerous, filthy, and easier to seize.

Russ Vought has no authority during the shutdown to implement DOGE 2.0 to extract political pain from Democrats. In fact, he’s admitted that outright.

How the Christian West turned its loathed infidels into mutual antagonists

Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.

Today on TAP: Hegseth wants our troops to run amok. Trump says, against ‘the enemy within.’

Danish MP Pelle Dragsted explains the tradition.

The company will stop supporting the OS on October 14. Advocacy groups warn this will leave up to 400 million computers vulnerable to hacks or in the dump.