Prospect

Harris and Trump’s foreign-policy aims in the Middle East proceed from the same incentive structures and presuppositions about U.S. supremacy.

Today on TAP: To win the blue-wall states, Harris needs to drive home the progressive populist planks she unveiled yesterday.

Project 2025 shows that Republicans can’t take heat—so they’d try to blow up the kitchen if they get the chance.

Her speech on the economy was guarded. The details laid out by the campaign paint a brighter picture.

And just maybe save the VA

Deb Haaland has been a remarkable secretary of the interior. But the future is about funding in Congress.

Today on TAP: The giant credit card company offers a textbook case in abuse of market power to buy off or crush potential competitors and reap excess profits at consumer expense.

Israel is starting a wider conflict.

Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?

Where would Harris and Trump take antitrust enforcement?

Republicans can run, but they can’t hide from themselves.

Trump is promising major disruptions for small-town communities. Yet residents still favor him over Kamala Harris’s development and investment approach.

Today on TAP: He’ll speak at the Al Smith Dinner, while reviving the same hateful attacks that were levied against Smith.

The Biden-Harris administration sowed the seeds of a green American economy. A second Trump term would poison them.

Too much of the profession operates as the ideological department of predatory capitalism.

Sally Rooney on love and redemption

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: All polls are prisoners of subjective assumptions. As a great student of public opinion said, ‘Don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin.’

North Carolina Republicans nominated seemingly the most deranged pervert in the state for governor.

Trump would be unrestrained in a second term.