Two House special elections are coming up that Democrats are certain to win.
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Posted inLaw and Justice
DHS Claims Videotaping ICE Raids Is ‘Violence’
The expanded definition has justified assaults on journalists who have documented detentions of immigrants.
Posted inEducation in America
PragerU Wants to Capitalize on PBS Defunding
The right-wing educational resource is available for classrooms in ten states and wants to go ‘toe-to-toe’ with PBS Kids. Will teachers go for what the company has described as indoctrination?
Posted inTAP
Tom Lehrer and Mort Mintz, RIP
Today on TAP: Both challenged American smugness, one with satire and the other with great journalism.
Posted inTAP
The Epstein-Trump Scandal Builds
Today on TAP: Republicans can try, but they aren’t going to be able to run and hide from this one.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Canceling Colbert Begins the End of Television
Did Paramount suck up to Trump by ending its late-night show? Sure. Will there be any television networks to throw people off in ten years? Probably not.
Posted inPolitics
What We Learned From The New York Times’ Anti-Zohran Crusade
The most powerful newspaper in America doesn’t care about American democracy.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
How Public Media Cuts Hurt Kids
Essential education programming for children in underserved communities is threatened by the proposed elimination of Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding.
Posted inVideos
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Assault on Trans Rights
On our live show, Ryan Cooper and Evan Urquhart dig into the recent transphobic Supreme Court decision, and how The New York Times enabled it.
Posted inTAP
Conservatives on Trump: Don’t Blame Us!
Today on TAP: In a tour de force of sophistry, George Will says Trump is really one of those god-awful progressives.
