Prospect

A House Committee on Financial Services hearing Thursday morning was an exercise in gaslighting.

A casino is at the center of a fight over the soul of Coney Island, one of three downstate casino licenses being pursued in New York.

Today on TAP: Democrats are making a budget stand over Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. But Trump is also coming for the much larger Medicare program.

Provisions in the counteroffer to a continuing resolution would prevent illegal withholding of funds and partisan budget cuts.

Today on TAP: Making jokes has never been this dangerous, except in authoritarian states.

For the last 20 years, analysts have known that this is an economy by and for the rich.

Lessons from California and AIDS

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has dramatically reduced policing of forced labor violations, as the agency focuses more resources on tariffs.

Today on TAP: Will congressional Republicans get serious about restraining Kennedy’s perverse policies or forcing his resignation?

A cruel troll is being canonized so liberals and leftists can be silenced.

Food banks around the country are reporting an uptick in visits. Grocery store chains are reporting an uptick in profit.

A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is how.

Today on TAP: As George Will noted, both made ‘politics fun’ (to be sure, even while disparaging equal rights).

The more authoritarian Trump becomes, the more he provokes effective opposition.

Hundreds of billions in appropriated spending has been withheld, with dire consequences. Government funding shouldn’t be derailed like this.

Former antitrust enforcer Reed Showalter is running for Congress to leverage his expertise in fighting corporate power.

Today on TAP: And so is Trump’s maneuver to take over the central bank. Even if he were to succeed, there is no good monetary cure for Trump’s economic carnage.

Democrats are publicly conditioning a budget agreement on health care changes. But they also have powerful options to arrest the slide to authoritarianism.

While some establishment Democrats attack their leftward drift

On Friday, ICE agents killed a man in a suburb and fired pepper balls at peaceful protesters.