To understand the Democrats’ big climate and health care bill, you must go back decades.
Joe Manchin
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Permitting Reform Is a Decoy for Ramping Up Gas
A new Manchin-Schumer deal is being marketed as a clean-energy hack, but it’s mostly about gas exports.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Biggest Permitting Reform Would Be More Money
Changes to permitting rules pale in comparison to actually funding the agencies that carry those reviews out.
Posted inTAP
Senate Democrats Take a Run at Messing Up Same-Sex Marriage Wedge Issue
Today on TAP: Linking same-sex marriage codification to a government funding bill draws mass opposition.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The September Issues
Congress still has some work to do before the midterms.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Manchin Permitting Deal Teeters Despite Gas Industry Support
‘We sure as hell don’t owe Joe Manchin anything now,’ says one Democrat.
Posted inPodcasts
Digging Into the Inflation Reduction Act
Prospect executive editor David Dayen discusses the biggest climate bill in American history.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Permitting Reform Bill Flips Leverage to Progressives
A side deal with Joe Manchin attempts to approve a pipeline in his backyard and speed through permitting rules. Progressives should make their own conditions.
Posted inPolitics
Democrats Discover Winning Feels Good
Accomplishment is better than endless dithering—who knew?
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Just Exposed Their Greatest Weakness
Only a deranged political party votes against health care for wounded veterans out of pure spite.