Prospect

Today on TAP: An American general’s prescription for how we should have fought in Vietnam has been realized in Israel’s war on Gaza.

The door plug that ripped off an Alaska Airlines plane only exists because of cost-cutting production techniques to facilitate cramming more passengers into the cabin.

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

A ferocious advocate and a kind friend

Today on TAP: The usually public-minded commission is on the verge of permitting a new Bitcoin gold rush.

A new book documents the lost (and pro-Democratic) world of Pennsylvania steelworkers and how it became Republican.

Demetrios Kouzoukas’s nomination battle offers the perfect opportunity for Democrats to prove themselves to voters.

Everyone thought these companies couldn’t handle the end of the repayment pause. Everyone was right.

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

A would-be dictator does not need help from the opposition making his legal arguments.

California is about to start developing and manufacturing insulin. But is the state too tied up with nonprofit Civica Rx, rather than building its own capacity?

Restaurants, bakeries, and other food purveyors move to cut down on throwing out perfectly good eats.

Today on TAP: Is it possible to say anything historically accurate without offending the Republican base?

Those who believed inflation would be transitory were proven right, and those who demanded the sacrifice of mass unemployment proven wrong.

A tattered entertainment industry is hoping to solve its problems with mergers. Will Biden’s aggressive antitrust enforcers force a Plan B?

After 12 years in office, the junior senator podcasts more than he legislates. But history suggests Texans will give him six more years to talk.

Today on TAP: Thanks to Democrats and the American Rescue Plan, insulin prices are going way down for everyone.

Authoritarian Republicans, ineffectual Democrats, and a clueless media

Some technical errors in previous continuing resolutions now threaten a big cut to nondefense spending.

Science graduate student assistants and researchers are at the forefront of recent unionization efforts in academia.