Prospect

The Justice Department’s antitrust chief signaled that he would override banking regulators if necessary if a proposed merger harmed the public.

A new Oxfam survey on worker well-being compares us to the other advanced and semi-advanced economies. America remains exceptional-y bad.

Freight rail unions have gradually achieved their key demand from the labor dispute last year.

Labor groups fear offshore wind could go the same way as solar: low wages and temp workers.

Today on TAP: The Titan submersible tragedy has overshadowed the sinking of a boat carrying hundreds of impoverished migrants.

Before the Federal Trade Commission chair got there, the agency was brimming with conflicts of interest, including from her loudest critics.

An undercovered SCOTUS decision brushes against Native sovereign immunity, but also potentially snuffs out loopholes exploited by payday lenders.

In what has become a national battleground over public education, the campaign seeks to fundraise for and train progressive school board candidates.

Mark Rohrbaugh, a mid-level staffer at the National Institutes of Health, has consistently blocked the use of march-in rights to seize patents on high-cost drugs.

Today on TAP: Not if the state’s progressives and Democrats hope to be winning elections

India is seen as a strategic counterweight to China, and that has overridden any U.S. concerns about repression against ethnic minorities and the press.

TSMC’s $40 billion semiconductor facility in Phoenix, an open shop that resisted signing an agreement with labor unions, has been tainted with accidents, alleged wage theft, and costly setbacks.

Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford dissects how the South Carolina city ignores its Black residents and its climate realities.

A new study says yes, but barriers will persist.

Today on TAP: The defenders of tenure as protecting academic freedom would have more credibility if they had resisted the plague of adjunct appointees, who have neither job security nor decent pay.

Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill with widespread Republican support, but Sherrod Brown replaced it with his own.

At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’

Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction

Today on TAP: The state-level administration of America’s insurance of last resort means millions are losing coverage.

A focus solely on near-term GDP overlooks what’s being attempted.