Prospect

Today on TAP: If Trump is shrewd, he will name J.D. Vance.

How can their convention, and nominee, call for both calming de-escalation and furious retribution?

The housing crisis puts the Costa-Hawkins Act under the microscope for the third time in six years.

Russell Vought is rumored to be under consideration for chief of staff in a second Trump administration. This would be a disaster.

America has been here before. A lot.

In American politics, the most annoying outcome is usually what happens.

Big companies are using Big Data to pick your pocket.

John Ganz discusses his new book on how the period anticipated Trump.

Today on TAP: Biden’s NATO press conference was not quite a catastrophe, but far from sufficient to stop the steady drip of demands that he step aside.

The Seventh Circuit reversed a lower-court ruling that effectively would have made it legal to put up ‘Whites Only’ signs in businesses or on websites.

It is simply much harder to run a campaign if you don’t have personal wealth.

Time for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

Today on TAP: Sean O’Brien will kick off the prime-time presentations at the Republican convention on Monday, to the dismay of countless fellow unionists.

The language change in their platforms is a nakedly dishonest bait and switch.

Surprising grassroots signature-gathering effort thrown into turmoil with no apparent path forward to November.

A report from Evergreen Action claims that the administration has made progress on 85 percent of its climate proposals, and makes the case for one more Biden term to finish the job.

Today on TAP: Could a strong push to register and mobilize Democratic voters compensate for Biden’s weakness as a candidate?

The Fed can do something about that, in line with their mandate of maximizing employment, by cutting interest rates.

Terrifying blueprints for the next Republican presidency are a quadrennial tradition.

A formal, congressionally appropriated division would have the resources to go after pricing schemes.