Prospect

Today on TAP: Will they increase his popular support—or backfire?

Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. But the waste in the system goes to elites like him. Here’s a better way to bring down deficits.

Like the Confederacy’s leader, Trump’s agenda is civil war.

From the church to the schoolyard to the legislature, Americans are making plans to protect themselves and their loved ones from deportation.

On our live show, David and Emma break down the early days of the Trump presidency.

Explaining what Donald Trump is up to

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head has not been fired. Apparently, it’s because the Trump team can’t find anyone to replace him.

It’s 95 percent fake news, but the rise and fall of American aviation is also a powerful parable about the limits of what Percy Green called ‘tokenism.’

The subsector of the economic far right that actually likes immigration is not enthused by the dawn of a new Trump era.

Explaining what Donald Trump is up to

Trump’s order is unlawful and unconstitutional under current law, but that’s not the point.

Young people are leaving the state, and climate change’s impacts on the cost of living are contributing factors.

A two-year-old died in Section 8 housing in Pittsburgh, in one of over 130 federally subsidized properties owned by private equity firm Vitus.

President Musk is running the government like he ruined Twitter.

Explaining what Donald Trump is up to

If they don’t, the checks and balances that have defined our government since its inception will give way to one-man authoritarian rule.

By following through on Biden’s Medicare price negotiation program, he can take credit for prescription reductions. But Big Pharma doesn’t want that to happen.

Explaining what Donald Trump is up to

The Los Angeles fires shine a light on the wretched excess of the very rich.

Firefighting is a rare voluntary role, but the state’s other prisoners still have no choices, making the dangerous work in wildland fire camps more attractive.