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How did such a key provision get axed?

The story of Maloney’s office shutting down a colleague who tried to stir up opposition to a fracked-gas plant is part of a pattern.

Joe Biden’s mishandling of the many episodes of the Joe Manchin follies imperiled a burning planet—and the executive actions he should take have not materialized.

Today on TAP: The House took the first step yesterday. Will the Senate screw up a sure thing?

Mars, Inc., is best known for making chocolate bars. But it also owns the most pet hospitals in the U.S., and workers say the conditions are toxic.

Executive actions on climate are important and necessary, but it’s unclear whether they can create the funding required for a green transition.

And they’re not going to do anything to fix it.

The party proposes to fund OSHA, EPA, the IRS, and the NLRB at much less than those agencies got in 2010, in real terms.

Today on TAP: He killed the Democrats’ bill because, he said, he was concerned about inflation. But the bill was anti-inflationary; what he really didn’t like was boosting green energy.

The Biden administration needs to defend the reproductive rights of community clinics and their patients.

In a world of elevated prices, the Tennessee Valley Authority has extensive authorities to research and produce fertilizer at its Muscle Shoals facilities.

The L.A. City Council’s recent approval of a hotel worker protection measure is part of a growing trend.

An investigation of Stevens’s residency raises significant legal and ethical questions about her candidacy.

Today on TAP: Can Joe Biden keep the faith? Can we?

How Democrats went from unanimous opposition to an unpopular policy to doing nothing about it in the five years since it became law.

A Prospect symposium on judicial review and the separation of powers

For all its imperfections, the Court is the one branch of government structured to protect minority rights.

Which we can alter only with politics

Judicial review is not just anti-democratic, it strangles ordinary governance.

Professor William Clare Roberts considers Marx, socialism, and political theory.