The ‘Look What You Made Me Do’ Phase of the Shutdown
The White House withheld urgently needed infrastructure funding from a state that didn’t vote for him for president.…
Democrats Bet Briefly Preventing a Health Insurance Apocalypse Is Good Politics
In March, Democrats faced a decision: shut down the government over the litany of lawless actions and usurped…
Hegseth May Be Required to Create Public Military Sex Offender Registry
After scraping his way through a bruising confirmation hearing that saw interrogations over allegations of sexual assault, harassment,…
Environmental Protection Agency in Name Only
States and regulated industries have challenged the scientific determination underpinning federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions before, but…
Pete Hegseth’s Venmo: Defense Contractors, UnitedHealth Execs, Fox, and Friends
Ahead of his confirmation hearing earlier this month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s very public biography was the…
Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust
In the days after 9/11, a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Ward Churchill, compared…
Best of 2024: Emma Janssen
I started as a Prospect writing fellow halfway through 2024, so my time at TAP has been largely…