stLouISTHollywood’s Role in Stigmatizing Abortion
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The Kabul Execution: Action Without Actors
Today on TAP: Who needs SEAL Team Six when a drone can do it all? Eventually, who’ll need any manual labor? And what will become of those who work with their hands?
Democrats’ Self-Funder Problem
Big-money donors are bigfooting into vital races.
The Enablers of Predatory Capitalism
How free-market economists, central bankers, rapacious CEOs, and free-trade diplomats undermined the New Deal order
Inflation Reduction Bill Uses Public Finance to Stoke Energy Investment
Billions in public financing would keep investment flowing into energy sector despite interest rate hikes.
⏩ What Can Labor Do to Build on this Unusually Promising Moment?
Join leading figures behind the surge in union organizing as we discuss how best to increase worker power.
Is the Tax Reform in the Schumer-Manchin Deal for Real?
Today on TAP: Amazingly, the package includes provisions that have long eluded progressives.
The Modern-Day Company Towns of Arkansas
Fortune 100 giants Tyson Foods and Walmart have heavy influence over two cities within 20 miles of one another, tucked into the northwest corner of the state.
Post-‘Roe,’ Transgender People Fear for the Future
States that restrict abortion access have also put harsh anti-trans laws on the books that threaten people’s lives.
In Kansas, Abortion Is on the Ballot Tomorrow
Younger voters are mobilizing to protect abortion rights ahead of the Kansas primary.
Rep. Krishnamoorthi: ‘We Have No Choice but to Assume the Worst’
The Prospect talks to one of the chief investigators into how data brokers may be invading the privacy of abortion seekers.
Another Airline Merger That Would Worsen Inflation
Today on TAP: The JetBlue buyout of low-cost Spirit Airlines faces certain action from Biden’s reinvigorated antitrust officials.
When Workers’ Rights and Antitrust Come Together
Which they did on Tuesday, when the NLRB and the Justice Department announced a joint effort to go after monopsonistic violators of workers’ rights
How to De-Develop in an Age of Fire and Flood
Much is riding on how Americans approach new development and managed retreat as the climate crisis worsens over the next decade.
It’s Past Time to Replace IRS Chief Charles Rettig
No more Trump cronies overseeing the tax authority
Altercation: By the Usual Standards of American Politics, Most January 6th Testifiers Would Be a Disgrace
They countenanced or took part in the kinds of scandalous acts that brought more ‘normal’ presidents down.
Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer Have a Surprise for You
An 18-month odyssey culminates in a smaller-than-promised, bigger-than-expected agreement to lower health care costs, tax corporations, and protect the planet.
Why We Need Social Housing
What Medicare for All is for health care, social housing is for shelter.
Rep. Haley Stevens Isn’t Paying Her Campaign Interns
Despite her campaign raising millions, one intern got a single Starbucks card.
An Industrial Policy Without Worker Protections
The domestic manufacturing bill was meant to be the new frontier of bringing good jobs to America. But workers became an afterthought.