Billionaires are hopeful that Kamala Harris will break from the FTC chair. But she’s part of an entire network of policymakers who are actually governing in Washington.
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Posted inWorking in America
Waffle House Workers Challenge the Southern Economy
One union chips away at the vestiges of Jim Crow–era labor policies.
Posted inPolitics
Tim Walz Would Make a Great Running Mate
Kamala Harris apparently needs a white dude. They don’t come better—or whiter—than this.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Kamala Harris Has an Opportunity on SCOTUS Reform
Harris’s record and broad public support point to a stronger Court reform platform.
Posted inPolitics
Seeds of a Conservative Crack-Up
An accidental encounter with a group of progressive anti-abortion activists revealed the tenuous hold Donald Trump may have on his coalition.
Posted inTAP
Kamala’s Strengths and Weaknesses
Today on TAP: And how she can talk to working-class voters
Posted inPolitics
Kamala Harris: How Strong a Democratic Nominee?
The vice president could do a lot better against Trump than her detractors think.
Posted inPolitics
A Party of Precarious Manhood, Led by a Blithering Idiot
Trump’s acceptance speech was a mishmash of self-love, protestations of toughness, and prefabricated lies.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Assassin Amid the Undesirables
On the abiding despair of the failed Trump assassin’s post-COVID, private equity–looted nursing home
Posted inPolitics
Needles in Project 2025’s Haystack
Both the details and the broad strokes are terrifying.
