Prospect

A long-awaited bipartisan bill on domestic manufacturing could run aground because of House-Senate differences over its trade chapter—reflecting intense corporate lobbying.

The school is being devoured from the inside by its own administrators.

New well count rises as governor appoints oil lobbyist to top role.

Today on TAP: The party’s leadership is largely in its seventies and eighties, and nobody is waiting in the wings.

A class action case charges that chicken farmers are so beholden to middlemen that they are effectively employees of the company.

The lockdown crisis in China’s richest city recalls decades of past food shortages and stirred a restless citizenry to speak out about a broken social contract.

Those who attack Tim Ryan’s ad challenging China’s predatory trade practices as ‘anti-Asian’ are playing a dangerous game.

Two new studies—one on poverty wages, one on the declining share of revenues going to workers—are at once authoritative and mind-boggling.

Today on TAP: Will Trump’s endorsement of J.D. Vance help Ohio’s hedge-fund hillbilly—or sink him?

Though often unsaid in police reform debates, numerous court precedents have established that cops aren’t obligated to act in the interests of citizens.

We did during WWII and in the 1980s. It’s the right way to deal with ‘inflation’ that is pure price-gouging.

Mary Moriarty, candidate for Hennepin County attorney, explains what’s been going on in Minneapolis since the George Floyd protests.

Today on TAP: The reformed process for targeting community projects gets the balance of public spending and public accountability exactly right.

Danica Roem, the nation’s first openly transgender state legislator, triumphed by owning her story and focusing on what voters care about.

Public comments on a proposal to change merger guidelines have soared, showing broad interest in reining in monopolies.

From banning books to dictating curricula, Republicans are the real cancelers, not that the MSM recognizes that.

Better Jobs Together, which previously ran ads for Henry Cuellar and Kyrsten Sinema, is on the air for Rep. Kurt Schrader in his tightly contested Oregon primary contest against a progressive challenger.

Today on TAP: A case just put before the NLRB asks it to overturn past anti-worker rulings.

Spurned for high-level positions on several occasions, he enters the conversation for a Fed slot at a time when progressives are wary of more personnel battles.

New York cops bungled their response to a mass shooter.