Prospect

A proposed merger between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern would facilitate shipments of tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

A new comedy special brings to light the relationship between race, poverty, and mental trauma.

Today on TAP: Middleman companies contract with insurers to find someone else to pay medical costs.

President Biden may nominate Janice Eberly, former deputy to the mastermind of America’s foreclosure crisis.

With the company pausing construction on its ‘second headquarters’ in Virginia, we can see the HQ2 bidding war for what it was: a mass intelligence-gathering operation.

ESG and sustainability are the latest manifestations of a tried-and-true strategy for the consulting industry.

Today on TAP: It’s another vivid case of the junk fees that Biden has begun to challenge.

CTEH has been cited by lawmakers for ‘releasing findings defending the corporate interests that employ them.’

To appease industrialized allies, the White House could undermine the delicate coalition backing domestic green manufacturing.

Why the humanities cannot and should not abandon their critical role

A new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau details the financial profiles of BNPL borrowers.

Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic.

With the incumbent and the early front-runner out in Chicago’s mayoral race, the remaining combatants represent a contrast of styles.

Cleaning up air pollution might increase global temperature by as much as an entire degree Celsius.

Pennsylvania residents are increasingly anxious about health impacts and water contamination after the East Palestine derailment.

Today on TAP: Eli Lilly announces insulin price caps, but keep an eye on the footnotes.

The justices may have trouble confirming that the plaintiffs have the right to sue.

As deputy secretary, she’ll take the role of acting head of the Cabinet agency. That will help her win confirmation to lead it.

Deregulatory zeal and government spending cuts are surefire ways to preserve corporate impunity, at the public’s peril.

Today on TAP: Commerce Department urges chip-makers facing a construction labor crunch to offer child care, use union workers.