Prospect

Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.

The greatest threat to democracy from media isn’t disinformation, it’s the paywall.

Conservative positions on abortion and LGBT rights are astoundingly unpopular. It could be better sledding for moderates than condemning their own party.

Cuellar, who has the worst environmental voting record of any Democrat in Congress, faces a competitive primary challenge from Green New Deal backer Jessica Cisneros.

Today on TAP: It’s unconscionable and probably unconstitutional to punish the Walt Disney Company for opposing Florida’s anti-LGBTQ legislation. But Disney’s private-government deal is its own scandal.

Wall Street money rains on the Pennsylvania Senate race.

The company pledges jobs, but the history of economic development incentives shows that many communities give up more than they get.

Drug companies are using intellectual-property laws to price-gouge the public, and even Republicans don’t like it.

Labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon explains how the union drive succeeded and what’s next.

Today on TAP: It makes good sense to retain the mask mandate, but keeping it is difficult politics.

A fitness gear seizure in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park shows that city officials have miles to go to create and support welcoming spaces for all residents.

Removing the wolves from the federal list of endangered species may have imperiled animals that play a key role in mountain ecosystems.

With the real economy resurgent, the World Bank and IMF could be reformed to manage capital flows and make trade deals about trade again. But the mood in Washington makes this unlikely.

A diverse coalition emerges to stand up for broader land rights in the Midwest.

There is little sign the new executive editor Joseph Kahn is going to reckon with what the Republican Party really is.

Today on TAP: Tens of millions of young Americans of moderate income are crushed by debt. Joe Biden could be their hero.

It’s all about pretending a boatload of federal cash helps the free market.

Democrats got one thing right—the American Rescue Plan. It might just realign U.S. politics.

While the corporate giant fights litigation over its sale of defective earplugs to the U.S. military, 3M pads its résumé as a big supporter of service personnel and vets.

Today on TAP: Otherwise, this is a slow-motion humanitarian catastrophe and a Putin victory.