Prospect

Today on TAP: Oil to end Russia’s stranglehold on Europe? Creating enough semiconductors? Only publicly owned companies can deliver those goods.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.

In a final admission of defeat, the administration is rebranding its ‘Build Back Better World’ foreign-policy initiative, removing references to its failed domestic agenda.

America should continue its limited support for Ukrainian arms.

Today on TAP: Some in the administration are again pushing for tariff cuts. Their approach is bad economics and worse politics.

Kurt Schrader not only got the president’s only endorsement thus far in the 2022 cycle. Local Democrats have accused the DCCC of surreptitiously helping him, too.

A coalition of community-based groups has come together to demand reform of a sector that has had a disproportionately negative impact on communities of color.

After significant cutbacks and tragedies at their private equity–owned hospital, the community of Riverton, Wyoming, tried something different.

Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.

The greatest threat to democracy from media isn’t disinformation, it’s the paywall.

Conservative positions on abortion and LGBT rights are astoundingly unpopular. It could be better sledding for moderates than condemning their own party.

Cuellar, who has the worst environmental voting record of any Democrat in Congress, faces a competitive primary challenge from Green New Deal backer Jessica Cisneros.

Today on TAP: It’s unconscionable and probably unconstitutional to punish the Walt Disney Company for opposing Florida’s anti-LGBTQ legislation. But Disney’s private-government deal is its own scandal.

Wall Street money rains on the Pennsylvania Senate race.

The company pledges jobs, but the history of economic development incentives shows that many communities give up more than they get.

Drug companies are using intellectual-property laws to price-gouge the public, and even Republicans don’t like it.

Labor journalist Luis Feliz Leon explains how the union drive succeeded and what’s next.

Today on TAP: It makes good sense to retain the mask mandate, but keeping it is difficult politics.

A fitness gear seizure in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park shows that city officials have miles to go to create and support welcoming spaces for all residents.

Removing the wolves from the federal list of endangered species may have imperiled animals that play a key role in mountain ecosystems.