Prospect

Despite promises that new repayment plans would make monthly payments lower, many borrowers report they are higher.

A climate backlash over the expansion of emission fees on older vehicles simmers in Britain.

To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.

Today on TAP: There are too many realms with public consequences where the private sector is inefficient and rapacious. Some might call the remedy socialism.

Advocates were thrilled that Medicare will negotiate the price of several insulins. But other high-profit drugs are protected by the new program’s rules.

Investor-owned utilities have been at the forefront of numerous political scandals and ecological disasters. There is an alternative.

Sixty years ago, the great march set me on a different path.

Today on TAP: The two national papers’ commemoration of the March on Washington profiled participants, but skipped their politics.

The gas tax is effectively a user fee on roads. EV drivers don’t pay it. How do we deal with that?

Will Medicare use its ample leverage to make Wegovy affordable?

One year after IRA passage, bad actors try to thwart drug price negotiation, and Biden’s efforts to defend it fall short.

Today on TAP: A broad coalition asserts, with plenty of evidence hidden in plain view, that Fox fails the FCC’s character test.

A little-noticed Justice Department case alleges that Alabama’s Medical Properties Trust engaged in ‘fraudulent conveyance.’

While the agreement gives Ultium Cells workers a raise of more than 20 percent, membership overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike of the Big Three automakers after September 14.

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.

Today on TAP: More of the same may be in store at the State Department.

President Biden has kept far too many of Trump’s brutal immigration policies.

Are the two diametrically opposed? Or does one emerge from the other?

The industry watered down some of the tougher prohibitions. But it’s a start.

If history repeats itself, the attorney general’s wife could prosper even if he goes down in an impeachment trial.