Prospect

Elon Musk evinces no understanding of how government works.

The rumored end to the $7,500 federal rebate for electric vehicles sounds like it would hurt the nation’s biggest EV maker. Quite the opposite, actually.

The NLRB rules that management may not compel employees to attend its anti-union meetings.

Today on TAP: His China policy nominees are a relative oasis of competence, with a mix of sensible policy ideas and outlandish ones.

A federal merger challenge against two home health giants has state partners, who will have to carry the ball if the Trump administration walks away from corporate enforcement.

The incoming president has a plan to eviscerate the Senate’s ability to confirm nominees. We’ll soon see if it will work.

Community disinvestment, lack of economic opportunity, and rampant misinformation were a few of the chronic ills that kept Black Philadelphians from the polls.

Today on TAP: Purging generals, putting intelligence in the hands of a Putin-phile, turning Justice over to an alleged predator—we’re almost back in the USSR!

The second Trump administration will have a Potemkin cabinet and centralized power among the czars in the White House.

The last federal attempt to criminalize and expel undocumented immigrants was thwarted by a huge backlash. Could that happen again?

Kentucky voters soundly rejected sending taxpayer dollars to private schools, showing yet again that Kentuckians stand with public educators.

Today on TAP: His clumsy attempts at autocracy are already backfiring as Senate Republicans refuse to name Trump’s choice, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, as majority leader.

Republicans won the Rio Grande Valley for the first time since 1912. How?

Wall Street’s effort to keep Warren from becoming ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee did not succeed.

Trump was supposed to be in decline, losing it. He lost it all the way to the White House.

Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.

Today on TAP: Until December 31st, they can still confirm some Biden nominees to crucial regulatory and judicial posts.

His first administration was a farce. The second will be a tragedy.

Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.

November and December will nominally be about confirming judges and kicking the can on must-pass bills. More ambitious efforts probably aren’t happening.