Today on TAP: Seemingly, Kevin Warsh is a mainstream central banker. Dig down and he’s the Fed equivalent of Pete Hegseth. Don’t expect Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nominee to chair the Fed, to have smooth ...

Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.

Boston, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is returning to reality television. Despite a cabinet-level appointment, a responsibility to oversee the nation’s transportation infrastructure, airports ...

In the low-profile race for California insurance commissioner, Jane Kim wants to borrow from other countries to solve a crisis in the homeowner’s insurance market.

This article appears in the April 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. The week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, stood tall next to the president ...

Activists are building a political home for the Michigan Senate candidate’s anti-corruption, anti-war populist message.

During a recent campaign speech in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump claimed that, when he first entered the White House seven years ago, there were “sadists” working at the VA who “would ...

A political storm is brewing in Idaho. At stake is whether America’s higher-education system will continue to serve as a host organism to parasitic for-profit colleges on the hunt for buyouts. Last ...

The largest corporate health care hospitals in the country are consolidating their power and using it to rip off patients, a new study from Families USA shows. Released amid the GOP’s manufactured ...

In the second Trump administration, Democrats have been backing away from climate change messaging. Joe Biden apparently got no credit for the Inflation Reduction Act, his marquee climate policy bill, ...

This edition of Aftermath is about how Trump’s war is seriously eroding American military strength. You can read our previous story about jet fuel and all the others in our series at ...

The DOJ says Live Nation has been colluding with its former chairman Irving Azoff to fix artist fees and ‘pimp’ Ticketmaster. Sixteen months ago, music mogul Irving Azoff sat on a stage in The Beverly ...