Prospect

Today on TAP: He proposed a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian imports unless they stop trying to hold Bolsonaro accountable for his attempted coup.

Judges and administrative procedures make it hard to make it easy to cancel subscriptions.

How the Keystone State handles a shortfall in Philadelphia could prove decisive for urban mass transit.

Several red states, pressed on by Koch-funded conservative groups, are moving to enact flat taxes or eliminate income taxes altogether.

Today on TAP: The Court uses a backdoor procedure to allow Trump to get rid of civil service employees at will.

Now independent union leader Dan Osborn, who nearly won a U.S. Senate race in 2024, is vying for his seat.

The most powerful newspaper in America doesn’t care about American democracy.

Many Americans will pay for AI with their health—especially thanks to Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy.

Today on TAP: On horseback, with armored vehicles, Trump’s troops stomp through L.A.’s MacArthur Park.

Essential education programming for children in underserved communities is threatened by the proposed elimination of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.

Scenes of a city under siege

Trump’s tariffs aren’t helping America. But they are helping someone else.

Signed into law 90 years ago, labor’s onetime ‘magna carta’ is now a very dead letter.

Today on TAP: Republicans are worried that voters will punish them in 2026. What if voters can’t?

The parents of medically complex children said that despair is not an option after Republicans passed deep cuts to home care.

With the president asleep at the switch, all kinds of nutty provisions got snuck into the bill.

Trump’s ‘post-racial’ war on DEI notwithstanding

As ICE agents run amok, Latino cities and communities have been compelled to cancel their celebrations.

Today on TAP: Abundance for working people blows away YIMBY.

Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.