Prospect

Unions are fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen, not just exploited temps.

Stablecoin legislation is the most likely crypto policy in the next Congress. But the top firms all face questions from law enforcement.

Tesla has tried to cut out the middleman, and other automakers are following suit.

A new report pushes to hold companies criminally accountable if their actions lead to global temperature rise.

Today on TAP: Ever look at the actuarial tables for 80-year-old men?

The hosts discuss the rapid growth and collapse of the crypto lobbying industry.

Fragmentation over energy and defense policy weakens the EU and fails to solve urgent problems.

Red states refuse to play by the same rules as blue states.

Fare evasion and stepped-up enforcement reignite the debate on fareless transit. If going fare-free is the answer, then the question is: Who pays?

Countrywide protests against China’s zero-COVID measures seek to force policy changes—and maybe more.

Today on TAP: Maybe the law schools will start an overdue stampede.

Imperial County, one of the most depressed areas in America, has a clean-energy fortune stored deep in an underground reservoir. Can it be extracted, and will downtrodden residents see the benefits?

Kanye West, Herschel Walker seem pleased with the Pandora’s box of horrors they’ve opened. But when mental health comes into play, this game becomes far more insidious.

Louisa Terrell, before becoming Biden’s director of legislative affairs, spent two years at Facebook at a key time.

Today on TAP: A Commerce Department investigation found that Chinese companies shipped solar panels through Southeast Asian countries to circumvent U.S. trade law.

Georgia youths are surging to the polls and could play a decisive role in the December 6 runoff election.

Dorothy DeWitt, who was general counsel at Coinbase, is the New York senator’s new chief counsel for finance.

This is about Wall Street demands for giant profits. Bad labor law gives Democrats few options, but there remain steps that President Biden can take.

Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)

Today on TAP: And that’s hardly the only labor news in a tumultuous week.