stLouISTAltercation: By the Usual Standards of American Politics, Most January 6th Testifiers Would Be a Disgrace
They countenanced or took part in the kinds of scandalous acts that brought more ‘normal’ presidents down.
Prospect
Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer Have a Surprise for You
An 18-month odyssey culminates in a smaller-than-promised, bigger-than-expected agreement to lower health care costs, tax corporations, and protect the planet.
Why We Need Social Housing
What Medicare for All is for health care, social housing is for shelter.
Rep. Haley Stevens Isn’t Paying Her Campaign Interns
Despite her campaign raising millions, one intern got a single Starbucks card.
An Industrial Policy Without Worker Protections
The domestic manufacturing bill was meant to be the new frontier of bringing good jobs to America. But workers became an afterthought.
Cut Off Private Equity’s Money Spigot
A variety of legislative and regulatory actions would make it hard for private equity to stay in business. That should be the goal.
Biden Talks Up the Economy, While the Fed Mashes It Down
Today on TAP: Managing today’s economic crosscurrents is far from easy. The Fed is making things worse. So is Biden’s happy talk.
A Four-Day Week at Five Days’ Pay
Workers (and their families) are stressed by the long hours they have to put in. It’s past time to cut those hours.
How Biden’s Biggest Achievement Got Derailed
Excessive reverence for unwritten Senate rules has dashed the campaign to remake the bench.
Thinking Sectorally
Our current model of collective bargaining leaves millions of workers out in the cold. Sectoral bargaining could change all that—and, just maybe, rebuild our shrunken middle class.
Setting the Standard for Electric Car Charging Stations
New federal rulemaking on interoperability and public investment has opened Tesla’s Supercharger network to non-Tesla users.
It’s Time for Universal Voting
Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.
Big Business Loves Government Spending
Today on TAP: When the spending’s on them, as it is in the CHIPS bill, which cleared a major Senate hurdle today
The Insidious Attack on the Training of Ob/Gyn Residents
The anti-choice lobby doesn’t want them to learn the full range of reproductive care, including abortion.
Abolish State Senates
What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.
Immigration Judges File Petition to Recertify Union
A three-year odyssey for the formerly unionized employees could be nearing an end.
The Art of the Deal
Pennsylvania state Senator Nikil Saval tells us about his bipartisan legislating.
Looking Over the Horizon
A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades
Looking Over the Horizon
A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades
The Zombie Survival of Crypto
Today on TAP: Will the Treasury rescue a scam sector just as it collapses of its own weight?