Prospect

The sneak attack on Social Security creates new vulnerability for Elon Musk and for the entire Trump project of destroying government.

Today on TAP: You could be forgiven, based on his recent behavior, for concluding that Trump is completely incoherent. Let’s look a little deeper.

The GENIUS Act is the first pro-crypto bill Republicans want to rush through this Congress. Thanks to industry money, several Democrats are ignoring the bill’s major problems.

Airport security screeners had a contract, signed just last year. On Friday, Trump trashed it.

And the most equitable way to do that is through publicly owned utilities.

On our live show, Harold and Adam Serwer of The Atlantic talk about the early days of the second Trump term.

Today on TAP: Will the Democrats have the savvy and unity to outplay Trump?

While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.

Some state and local leaders are trying to recruit suddenly jobless U.S. government employees.

Federal call center workers continue their fight after the Biden administration dialed back support for it.

Today on TAP: Elon Musk’s drug use has been widely reported—but not since he’s become deputy president.

A timely research paper looking at SSA staff cuts in the 1980s found that it led to tens of thousands of Americans not getting their earned benefits.

The lone civilian representative overseeing a sprawling partnership between the federal government and the NYPD says that officers are avoiding guidelines in place for 40 years.

Industry actors, Congress, and the EPA are teaming up to potentially make our air less breathable.

Propose economic fixes? He’d rather refight battles with Biden.

Donald Trump is on track to be the first president to deliberately engineer a severe depression.

His Starlink internet service could benefit from a proposed Republican fire sale of the government’s wireless spectrum.

High-energy progressives can provide a compelling daily account of everything going wrong and coordinate opposition to the Trump-Musk nightmare.

Democrats’ usual focus-tested pablum isn’t working.

Today on TAP: When courts rule against him and he’s already neutered an agency, it’s that agency, not the courts, that his lawyers say should rule.