Prospect

Nobody can retire unless there are still workers to provide goods and services.

Mixing up renewable energy project siting with fossil fuels production on public lands is environmental backsliding of the finest kind.

The ethanol industry will be first in line for carbon capture tax credits, even though that’s not really who the program was designed for.

A shadowy super PAC has popped up to attack the progressive Biaggi after DCCC head Rep. Maloney has declined to condemn the wave of outside spending in Democratic primaries.

It could be his conflicts of interest.

Today on TAP: We are a step closer to a civil war whose outcome is far from clear.

The Prospect interviewed researchers Amanda Kass and Philip Rocco on the American Rescue Plan, an unprecedented fiscal outlay for local governments that remains widely unknown.

It essentially cuts the government in on the buyback scam, making it harder to actually eliminate the practice.

The big winner in the eleventh-hour concessions to Kyrsten Sinema was the private equity industry.

Buyer’s remorse or full speed ahead?

Today on TAP: Packing the Court with anti-choice fanatics may have doomed Republicans’ prospects for winning a Senate majority.

A side deal with Joe Manchin attempts to approve a pipeline in his backyard and speed through permitting rules. Progressives should make their own conditions.

Time to ditch this nonsensical fake tradition.

It’s a starting point to deal with an issue that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities.

What are the contradictory trends and policy choices? And does the Inflation Reduction Act live up to its name?

Accomplishment is better than endless dithering—who knew?

State and local governments will decide if the infrastructure package makes climate change better or worse.

With their new and overdue embrace of industrial policy, the Democrats can now deliver to working-class voters who’ve understandably felt betrayed.

Today on TAP: The proliferation of PACs only worsens the cacophony.

So how come editors so often boost it into a threat to the cosmic order?