Prospect

Today on TAP: They’d better learn how. They won’t win the midterms just on reproductive rights.

FTC chair Lina Khan will almost certainly sue to block this consolidation. Despite a monopoly-friendly judiciary, she has a strong chance of success.

Ahead of a key vote at a warehouse in Albany, union drives and walkouts show that workers are unafraid of challenging the e-commerce giant.

Too many federal officials are overseeing policies where they have a direct financial interest.

Today on TAP: In France, workers have shut down oil refineries, demanding wage hikes as a share of company windfall profits.

Ryan Cooper reports in from the Faroe Islands.

Democrat Yadira Caraveo is painting her opponent Barbara Kirkmeyer as an extremist. Kirkmeyer is focused on inflation.

Child protective services is far less effective than the welfare state.

After trouncing crypto’s golden boy, Andrea Salinas stares down scandal-plagued millionaire Mike Erickson.

TV bookers apparently can’t stop themselves from giving an uncritical platform to anti-democracy demagogues.

Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.

So the January 6th Committee subpoenas Donald Trump.

Today on TAP: America is getting clubbed in the head with the problems of fossil fuel dependence.

Where did the behind-closed-doors racist garbage from some leading Los Angeles elected officials come from?

Political and economic indicators point to more liberalization ahead.

MOHELA, a servicer involved in the case that heard oral arguments on Wednesday, could be liable under California law if it interferes with a borrower’s right to debt forgiveness.

Today on TAP: As a close student of the Great Depression, he knew enough to prevent a repeat of it—but forgot the lessons about the need for tougher regulation of the financial system.

On the campaign trail, Republicans are attacking Pelosi and Democrats over a failed bipartisan effort at the end of September.

Those who favored Powell’s renomination to the Federal Reserve insisted that he would never do precisely what he’s doing now.

Almost half a century of fighting brought the country to its nadir, and there is no clear way out of the misery.