Prospect

Texas reactionaries use the temptation of school investments to force banks to keep financing school shootings.

Inflation is mostly not caused by spending, and the Fed will have no help if it causes a recession.

There was never any reason to be complacent about the end of legal abortion, nor should we think that the impact of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling will be muted.

This Supreme Court decision is a call to action. And the key message is—ALWAYS—if we organize, we can change this world, and we need to.

Today on TAP: The right is at odds with public opinion—on abortion rights, gun violence, and democracy itself. Do voters care more about the price of gas?

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act will not stop gun violence in schools or anywhere else.

What was once a policy of disengagement has now become a policy of far more dangerous entanglement.

CNN’s move to the ‘center’ is more bad news for news the country can really use.

CNN’s move to the ‘center’ is more bad news for news the country can really use.

The January 6th Committee is beginning to connect the dots.

Today on TAP: A new ruling striking down most blue-state gun regulation is utter nonsense.

Professor David I. Backer lays out the problems with how public schools are constructed and maintained.

The constitutional imperative is clear; the political implications are trickier.

The National Labor Relations Board is protecting the labor rights of American workers, but it’s been underfunded for a decade.

Today on TAP: Floods, fires, droughts, and the increasing uninhabitability of much of the American West demonstrate that we should be spending a great deal more.

Interest rate hikes are damaging the ability to take needed steps in our economic future.

An old rule to protect U.S. carriers drives up the cost of food aid, and fails to help the domestic ship industry.

Two years after winning a union vote, workers are still negotiating with the cultural icon. They’re raising the pressure on management.

The left and the far right deny Emmanuel Macron a majority in the French National Assembly.

Today on TAP: Tuesday’s January 6th hearing was devised to pack an emotional wallop, but the real news had to seep through the cracks.