Prospect

A new book details the penny-ante crooks extracting federal cash during COVID, and the disastrous budget decisions that gave them the opportunity.

Michael Kazin on Robert Wagner

Today on TAP: Courage and common sense were necessary but not sufficient. Here’s how it passed.

At the root of the Uvalde massacre is a wheezing politics and its meager facsimiles of solutions.

The confirmation of Steve Dettelbach is not assured.

Not even 19 butchered children can break through its idiotic traditions.

Today on TAP: Their opposition to gun laws and assault on women’s health should be center-stage issues.

In recent House primaries, Nancy Pelosi saved Henry Cuellar but threw Kurt Schrader to the wolves. Now what?

The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework seeks to prohibit forcing tech companies to share source code or store data locally.

The bipartisan competition bill could pour billions in loans, grants, and equity investments into supply chain security.

Reyes is the largest beer distributor in America, and rivals allege that it has used ‘strong-arm tactics’ to achieve dominance in California.

Today on TAP: Jessica Cisneros’s backers don’t only come from the left.

A war to prevent the past from becoming our future

… Large-scale civil disobedience could ensue. One tactic: mass tax revolt.

The OCC’s Michael Hsu expresses openness to behavioral remedies for bank mergers, when they have been shown not to work in other sectors.

Today on TAP: All the details of the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework remain to be filled in.

Two professors explain how tolerance of bigotry at colleges and universities undermines democracy and quality scholarship.

A carbon dioxide delivery driver’s long journey to expose issues that he says put his safety and integrity at risk

Samuel Alito’s argument against abortion rights sounds a lot like the arguments made against school desegregation 70 years ago.

A case brought by Sen. Ted Cruz now means candidates who loan their campaigns more than $250,000 can repay themselves with contributions raised after they are elected.