Ryan Cooper    Today on TAP: If he will agree to a vote on Ukraine aid, it might be worth it.

Harold Meyerson    Today on TAP: House Republicans won’t consider aid to Ukraine because, as a homophobic thug, Putin personifies their values.

Robert Kuttner    Today on TAP: Who gains politically if the bipartisan border bill stays blocked The losers are the vast majority of voters who want the crisis solved.

Jen Kirby    Between its stalled counteroffensive and divisions in the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is stuck in a doom loop.

David Dayen    The inevitable outcome of Republican anti immigration sentiment

David Dayen    Mike Johnson got almost precisely the same appropriations deal as Kevin McCarthy.

David Dayen    They just want to sustain the image of an immigration crisis.

David Dayen    Joe Biden, from a position of weakness, is trying to cut a punitive deal on border policy without the House.

Harold Meyerson    Today on TAP: Whence Mike Johnson’s opposition to funding Ukraine’s defense Putin is his fellow gay bashing bro.

David Dayen    The governing slog for Mike Johnson begins.

Ryan Cooper    If America reneges on its treaty commitments, the result will be mass rearmament and likely nuclear proliferation.

Robert Kuttner    Today on TAP: Military stresses are compounded by economic divisions.

Robert Kuttner    Today on TAP: Biden, the Fed, and the House

Harold Meyerson    Not only for Israel and Ukraine, but also, indirectly and effectively, against Trump and the Republican clown show.

Anatol Lieven    U.S. policymakers should listen to Gen. Clausewitz, not Gen. MacArthur.

David Dayen    New urgency on foreign aid might make getting through the budget and Ukraine funding easier. More likely, it will make it harder.

David Dayen    In The Last Politician,’ Franklin Foer unfolds Joe Biden’s record of achievement and command. But voters haven’t gotten to see it.

David Dayen    A passel of program authorizations and funding expire in September. There isn’t really a path yet to deal with them all.

Robert Kuttner    Today on TAP: There are too many realms with public consequences where the private sector is inefficient and rapacious. Some might call the remedy socialism.

David Dayen    It’s become a proxy for Republican battles about both national security and Kevin McCarthy’s job security.

Prospect Staff    Ukraine is starting the summer campaign, and his pet mercenary warlord marched on Moscow.

Harold Meyerson    Today on TAP: The Wagner Group mutiny re enacted aborted coups of yore.

David Dayen    The temper tantrum on House floor votes masks a much more consequential lack of consensus on upcoming spending bills which could give Democrats an opportunity.

David Dayen    In our final X Date, we note how Congress is already scheming to avoid restrictions on military spending.

Prospect Staff    Bill Fletcher argues that the American left should support efforts to fend off Russian aggression.

Harold Meyerson    A neofascist who opposes corporate globalism is still a neofascist and a threat to democracy.

Tisya Mavuram    Joe Manchin has protecting America exactly backwards.

Ryan Cooper    Today on TAP: Just when you are despairing about the Dems, they have a surprisingly good day.

Robert Kuttner    Low taxes, privatization, and pared back labor protections could undermine Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression.

Luke Cooper    How the Fed’s policies are doubly perverse for the Global South