Prospect

Will today’s unions invest big-time in the young workers now beginning to rebuild American labor? Or will they remain AWOL and ensure the movement’s continued decline?

The DPA has become the president’s pet executive authority, and could kick-start American energy manufacturing. But funding is scant and largely controlled by the Pentagon.

In Nevada and Arizona, unions and progressive groups are beginning to walk precincts, and finding an electorate up for grabs.

Today on TAP: The race for the Pennsylvania Senate seat will be the ultimate in fake versus real populism and sheer entertainment. It will be hard for SNL to parody.

It invokes a 1930 trade law—questionably—to nullify a Commerce Department investigation into trade violations.

Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and racial and economic justice groups are fighting to consolidate Biden’s 2020 victory.

The organizer, groundbreaking Austin policymaker, and congressional nominee plans to be the House’s ‘most pro-labor’ member.

Today on TAP: And it’s not just that they beat cozying up to Saudi Arabia.

Why did Julius Caesar change the calendar? Professor Nomi Claire Lazar explains.

A previously undisclosed memo to the Education Department offers a step-by-step guide to closing predatory schools before they suck up more federal loans.

The party needs to turn out the suburbs and shore up its urban base. Republican anti-abortion extremism might help.

The U.S. position at a key WTO meeting on intellectual-property waivers for COVID vaccines will reveal which side Joe Biden is on.

Today on TAP: Sometimes a feeble compromise is worse than nothing.

Racial trauma research is having a new day as the scientific community finally acknowledges the burden of being Black.

The mall developer has spent over $30 million to buy the mayor’s seat in Los Angeles. But his policies and messaging are as fake as his shopping centers.

He is spending prodigious amounts on lobbying and elections to ensure that crypto is lightly regulated in the future.

Today on TAP: Wage growth continues to decelerate. Contrary to Larry Summers et al., wages are not driving price increases.

Maloney’s announcement that he will exit his old district for a slightly safer seat spells doom for Democrats. But he has long put personal interests over his party.

Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators.

Do Mainers want a governor to do the job or a petty chief executive to wreck the place again?