Prospect

Meet the new Speaker of the House, same as the old one.

Today on TAP: In support of striking mechanics, dockworkers there are no longer unloading Teslas. Such solidarity isn’t legal here.

The Democratic strategist who was thrown out of his own firm for gambling on races he polled, working for crypto firms, and allegedly engaging in campaign finance violations is back.

Pennsylvania’s governor delivered after his state’s highway fire five months ago. Newsom’s crisis with the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles is significantly more complicated.

Bard is remarkably candid about the company’s intentions to leverage Big Data into AI to make its rivals, and the rest of the web, irrelevant.

A generic cold medicine available in Europe also turns out to have benefits for Parkinson’s. Biden could prevent the usual effort to patent it and jack up the price.

Today on TAP: Trump, Netanyahu, and the resurgence of antisemitism

A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.

Check out the ages of the candidates likely to appear on next November’s ballot and tell me the Democrats wouldn’t do better by going younger.

It turns out that most parents are repelled by howling red-faced bigots threatening teachers and trying to ban books.

In New York, the business lobby resorts to apocalyptic ads to stop a ban on noncompete provisions.

Today on TAP: Does student support for Palestinian rights promote violence at home?

Many have been arrested, public demonstrations have been banned or discouraged—even social media postings have been policed.

Democrats used to be the party with drop-off voters. That has flipped.

Clean Virginia and its opposition to the state’s monopoly utility was a hidden driver of election results.

Today on TAP: The CFPB fines Citibank for discriminating against … Armenians?

How poor decision-making added up to Election Day defeats for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney

Gotham finally discovers trash cans, while other cities get smart.

Absent the Build Back Better bill, the fight for care workers continues at the state level, and with Biden’s executive order.

Today on TAP: Democrats ran the table yesterday, but does that portend good news for 2024?