Prospect

The richest man on Earth is setting himself up as dictator of the United States.

Playing with fragile commercial real estate is like playing with fire.

With elections upcoming, the Conservatives had started measuring the drapes, but didn’t anticipate America’s new president shattering their country’s politics.

Today on TAP: What happens when democracy so badly fails to deliver the goods that the citizenry freely choses dictatorship?

It would take food and medicine from the poor and give the money to the rich. But there’s nothing even approaching consensus among Republicans.

Christopher Jencks, one of the Prospect’s founding group, has died.

It turns out that you can’t just turn the government off and then back on again.

The Office of the Attending Physician gives politicians nearly unlimited medical care for about $54 a month.

Today on TAP: While expelling nonwhite refugees here legally, he invites in white South Africans who say they don’t want to come.

The situation reveals that sometimes, even arsonists need the building they’re burning down to stay upright.

As long as nobody will stop him, why wouldn’t he?

The new 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum, directed mainly at China, are partially worthwhile, but were undercut by allowing Nippon Steel to buy into U.S. Steel.

Industry trade groups are alarmed that the Trump administration’s illegal order to halt work at the consumer protection agency will cause chaos in consumer markets.

Even the Führer knew to support German science, and not just for war. Why is Trump trying to destroy America’s great research universities?

The hostile takeover of federal IT systems is intended to use technology to reach preordained conclusions.

The shadow president has deep ties to the Chinese dictatorship, and it shows. The risk to national security is unimaginable.

The budget director and acting head of the CFPB also tried to defund the agency, but found it was already funded through the fiscal year.

On our live show, David and Moe break down who is really running the show in Washington.

Today on TAP: The Trump-Musk proposed sovereign wealth fund fits the pattern—dictatorship as an opportunity for personal enrichment.

A hastily added second order from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s acting director halts the agency from supervising non-bank firms like X.