Prospect

How the industry is positioned to shape the debate over U.S. industrial policy, and generally lobby for its interests, from within the ‘congressional watchdog’ agency

A ruling in Illinois from a Democratic-approved judge would invalidate the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in actions taken before the application stage.

General Motors and Ford are clients of Anderson Economic Group, which released a study about a potential strike’s cost to ‘the economy.’

Today on TAP: The state’s labor department ordered 27 Boston Market outlets to stop work after they violated minimum-wage laws.

The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.

A COVID-driven recession with temporary inflation is now followed by a strong recovery that follows no standard models.

Unionizing is not against the law; but the law is against unionizing.

Today on TAP: The White House executive order on export controls is mostly window dressing—and there is already pressure to water it down.

The Big Three’s transition to electric vehicles will largely be driven by public investment. That doesn’t guarantee there will be good-paying jobs.

Longtime GOP trade rep Robert Zoellick accuses Biden of failing to embrace the economic errors of Clinton and Obama.

U.S. colonialism and rentier capitalism are wreaking havoc on Puerto Rico.

Today on TAP: Wall Street’s hilarious complaint against a totally captured self-regulatory agency has one thing right: This delegation of government authority is unconstitutional.

Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power

Amid an ongoing Department of Justice inquiry, the Texas-based real estate tech company RealPage is prized for its analysis in mainstream media.

The sentencing of rapper Tory Lanez for shooting Megan Thee Stallion highlights decades of injustice.

Today on TAP: It grows hard to distinguish the Putinists from Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Alexander Reid Ross and organizer Tobita Chow discuss.

A new paper shows underinvesting in government comes at a staggering cost.

A Montana judge delivers a stunning, historic decision on the Mountain West state’s culpability for surging climate dangers that hit young people hard.

Gambling site Kalshi is spending big on a lobbying campaign to allow people to bet on the end of the American republic.