Prospect

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.

Loosing the world’s richest rats on his country

Investigators made solid progress in just three months, but the case is now mothballed.

The former Bernie Sanders campaign manager wants to run the Democratic National Committee because he doesn’t feel like it has a purpose right now.

He warned about the threats to American democracy. As did Eisenhower. As did Washington. And all three warned us about Elon Musk.

On our live show, David and Ryan talk about the uneven end to the Biden era and the ominous Trump presidency looming in the distance.

Today on TAP: And the strategic challenge facing the always-conflicted Donald Trump

One reason the president goes out with low approval ratings is that his agenda was internally contradictory.

Luxury real estate brokers want Los Angeles to cancel a mansion tax for damaged homes so they can feed off them.

A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission.

Today on TAP: Now that Gaza has been leveled, the war on the rubble and those trapped in it may cease.

The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.

In a major triumph for civic activists, the billionaire owners of the city’s NBA team backed out of an arena project that had been approved for the neighborhood.

Charles Littlejohn did America a service by exposing the tax avoidance of wealthy people like me.

Today on TAP: When biopics get it wrong—and occasionally get it just right

But there may be a way for Democrats to save Los Angeles.

One monopoly company should not have the power to decree which speech is permissible and which isn’t.

Today on TAP: How will the next Democratic House respond to the inevitable Florida hurricane?

The entire history of the attorney general nominee reveals a comfort with basing prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president.