Prospect

Today on TAP: Are we so inured to the premise that nothing can be done about mass ownership of military weapons that gun control has vanished from discourse and debate?

Shein and Temu make hundreds of millions of shipments using a de minimis exemption from tariffs and inspections. That could be coming to an end.

U.S. Steel’s David Burritt threatens to flatten Pittsburgh. Where’s the (Democratic) indignation?

A fiery Senate committee hearing promised accountability for hospital looter Ralph de la Torre, but new raids are already under way at the hospitals and the broader health care system.

David Dayen and Ryan Cooper discuss this week’s debate.

Today on TAP: A different course on the Middle East is urgently needed, and harder than you might think.

Contrary to the discussion at the presidential level, small businesses are seeking access to credit and a level playing field for their enterprises.

The company was a bad student loan servicer; so are its successors. The problem is that private servicers can’t make a profit without harming borrowers.

Reno’s building trades unions are mobilizing their members to support the Democratic nominee.

Today on TAP: $6,000 for newborns and universal affordable child care are great—but don’t speak to many young men.

His model leader is a tin-pot autocrat running a small corrupt country.

Despite continued failures in the industry, the Fed decided to take orders from bank CEOs.

Amendment 4 needs 60 percent support to pass. Organizers are fanning out across the state to get the votes.

Tariffs are a good example of the fact-free abandon of today’s Republican Party.

Today on TAP: Kamala Harris did well in the debate but missed some opportunities to remind voters of Trump’s sheer craziness.

And normal wins by a knockout in Tuesday’s Harris-Trump debate.

Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement, turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth agenda.

Today on TAP: On the eve of the Harris-Trump face-off, some further signs that Democratic economics delivered

Maybe, but we are still in for a close slog.

Karen Dunn is helping Kamala Harris and defending Big Tech from a lawsuit brought by the Biden-Harris administration. The case has spotlighted a brawl between Dunn’s law firm and DOJ.