Prospect

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.

Today on TAP: An interim report shows how pharmaceutical middlemen raise drug prices and damage care.

It’s perceived, rather correctly, as coming from an out-of-touch elite donor class without public legitimacy.

If he is the next president, we could see civil disobedience on an unprecedented scale. Better to keep him out of the White House in the first place.

But the constitutional amendment also leaves room for legislative meddling in the deep-red state.

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