Prospect

Today on TAP: The PGA selling out to MBS is pro golf’s version of the Republicans’ submission to Trump.

A whale has taken to attacking yachts. Jack O’Brien discusses with Francesca Fiorentini.

John Nichols discusses the book he wrote with Bernie Sanders.

Mike Pence has a genius strategy for his presidential primary: a motorcycle.

It’s bad enough not to get a clean debt bill, but it’s worse to impede electric transmission issues as part of the bargain.

The Inflation Reduction Act took minor steps against Big Pharma price-gouging. Merck is outraged.

Reaching across diverse backgrounds and kinds of work, thousands of union members are sharing strategy and stories of the struggle to live and work in Los Angeles.

Today on TAP: Despite efforts by British Conservative governments to strangle it, the National Health Service remains a jewel of fair and efficient socialized medicine.

The administration has committed itself to a herculean task, partnering with private loan servicers that in the past have shown themselves to be utterly incompetent.

The agency has sued both Binance and Coinbase for violating securities law.

Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.

Today on TAP: Biden’s achievements are significant, but don’t provide the kind of direct individual aid that people actually notice.

Drug patents are supposed to expire in 20 years. Thanks to legal trickery, though, it usually takes a lot longer than that.

In 2021, Congress issued grants to stabilize the child care system. Now the money is about to run out.

The Netflix series ‘Transatlantic,’ on the 1940-1941 rescue of refugees from Marseille, is well worth watching, and contrasting with the shameful neglect of refugees in 2023.

Today on TAP: Rep. Pramila Jayapal explains why the Fiscal Responsibility Act puts Democrats in a difficult position.

Black and Latino borrowers are more likely to get trapped in cycles of debt, because they have few other options for dealing with structural poverty.

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

Last Thursday, the Supremes ruled against a union of cement-mixer drivers—but their very odd decision could have been lots worse for American workers.

Today on TAP: Why does the mainstream media keep depicting lunatic-right Republicans and normal Democrats as equidistant from the center?