Prospect

To understand the Democrats’ big climate and health care bill, you must go back decades.

A reinterpretation on funding sources for VA researchers affiliated with academic institutions is imperiling irreplaceable studies of veterans’ health.

Today on TAP: Foreclosure activist-turned-journalist Lisa Epstein’s work leads to another victory over a predatory company.

If you’re Uber and Lyft, you buy a labor law through the ballot initiative system that legalizes the payment of poverty wages.

When a place is controlled by a government in which it has no representation, it will be abused.

Michael Tomasky on how a dissident, if realistic, assessment of the economy became mainstream

They are partially based on what even some of the modelers acknowledge are faulty data, particularly on methane.

Today on TAP: The Mar-a-Lago gang will need more lawyers.

A Ukrainian academic explains what is happening on the ground and why.

David is very nimble, but Goliath is more powerful than ever.

Martha’s Vineyard episode spotlights deep disrespect for migrants and broader interstate rifts.

German government science and American public money underpinned the development of Jynneos, but one Danish company now controls it entirely.

A new Manchin-Schumer deal is being marketed as a clean-energy hack, but it’s mostly about gas exports.

Today on TAP: It ain’t over till it’s over.

The show that rejuvenated the network sitcom is a quietly subversive commentary on class politics.

In Colorado, Democratic organizers stress that Latinos must be persuaded rather than just turned out at the end of a campaign.

Twenty years after creating the country’s first paid family leave program, California ponders how to make it useful to those who need it most.

Today on TAP: Banging pro-choice drums has a distinctly positive effect, but Democrats have to address the economy, too.

A new merchant code for firearm and ammunition sales may sound like an unremarkable change, but it could save lives, advocates say.

Will Rollins, campaigning against a long-serving Republican, is waging much of his race by fighting money in politics and corporate concentration.