Prospect

On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Samantha Hancox-Li discuss how Donald Trump’s madcap crusade is causing chaos in global markets, and why so many liberal institutions are capitulating to him.

Today on TAP: Trump’s destructive tariff policies could well require emergency Fed intervention that Powell doesn’t want. Will the Fed chair have the nerve to challenge Trump?

SNAP cuts are ‘going to have a massive shock wave across the country, and everybody will feel it.’

A Q&A with Biden industrial-policy official Alex Jacquez on the right way to boost domestic production in critical sectors

Private insurance companies just got a massive boost to their payments through the program, while DOGE fires the people responsible for oversight.

To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.

Today on TAP: Trump blinks for now, but he remains a bundle of contradictory impulses and grievances. So the wholly invented economic crisis will continue.

A Republican’s lawsuits in the last remaining race in Election 2024 open up new pathways for voting rights threats.

Emergency warnings are lighting up all over financial markets, solely because of Donald Trump.

The two Congressional Review Act resolutions now go to President Trump.

Today on TAP: The president is compelled to delay his tariffs. The Republican Congress failed to do it, so the markets did.

The economy was already stalling out before Liberation Day. A trade war on the entire world will only make everything worse.

Specialty contractors and labor brokers are among the participants reducing their own labor costs by burdening workers unfairly.

The operation included dozens of officers, some with guns in hand, as they moved through a paint business.

Today on TAP: Rebuilding manufacturing? It’s more about humiliating every other world leader, and keeping his own taxes low.

A day in Manhattan as markets whipsaw amid the Trump tariff debacle

The U.S. trading system since the 1970s has screwed American workers. But the main culprits are the American capitalists who devised the system, not foreigners.

Absolutely. Whether they will is a matter of whether Republicans will continue to put loyalty to Donald Trump above the economy and the country.

Right-wing financiers thought Trump would unleash prosperity. Instead, his tariffs are nuking the markets.

Today on TAP: Trump’s tariffs are messing with production arrangements in ways that are only beginning to reverberate.