Prospect

It’s likely to be even worse than Memorial Day weekend, when fraudulent staffing levels caused 2,800 flights to be canceled.

Missouri Rep. Cori Bush fought to secure $100 million to carry out Biden’s new plan to speed domestic production of clean energy.

Today on TAP: It’s time for Democrats in Congress to protect past landmark decisions from the current lunatic Supreme Court—and to force Republicans in Congress to take awkward votes.

On ‘Dobbs,’ ‘Roe,’ ‘Casey,’ and life in a gender hierarchy state

With Congress stuck, the administration holds the key to whether Americans will see meaningful reductions in prescription drug costs. So far, though, they’ve punted.

Texas reactionaries use the temptation of school investments to force banks to keep financing school shootings.

Inflation is mostly not caused by spending, and the Fed will have no help if it causes a recession.

There was never any reason to be complacent about the end of legal abortion, nor should we think that the impact of the Supreme Court’s latest ruling will be muted.

This Supreme Court decision is a call to action. And the key message is—ALWAYS—if we organize, we can change this world, and we need to.

Today on TAP: The right is at odds with public opinion—on abortion rights, gun violence, and democracy itself. Do voters care more about the price of gas?

The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act will not stop gun violence in schools or anywhere else.

What was once a policy of disengagement has now become a policy of far more dangerous entanglement.

CNN’s move to the ‘center’ is more bad news for news the country can really use.

CNN’s move to the ‘center’ is more bad news for news the country can really use.

The January 6th Committee is beginning to connect the dots.

Today on TAP: A new ruling striking down most blue-state gun regulation is utter nonsense.

Professor David I. Backer lays out the problems with how public schools are constructed and maintained.

The constitutional imperative is clear; the political implications are trickier.

The National Labor Relations Board is protecting the labor rights of American workers, but it’s been underfunded for a decade.

Today on TAP: Floods, fires, droughts, and the increasing uninhabitability of much of the American West demonstrate that we should be spending a great deal more.