Prospect

What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.

A three-year odyssey for the formerly unionized employees could be nearing an end.

Pennsylvania state Senator Nikil Saval tells us about his bipartisan legislating.

A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades

A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades

Today on TAP: Will the Treasury rescue a scam sector just as it collapses of its own weight?

Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care.

A proposed merger with One Medical would further Amazon’s efforts to sit in the middle of health care transactions.

Higher prices, an imminent economic downturn, and the stock market turmoil have turned working conditions from bad to worse for on-demand workers.

The burger giant is following the lead of other companies, but the track record of ‘civil rights audits’ is poor.

Today on TAP: Progressives win some small victories. What will it take for them to add up to big victories?

It was only when it became clear that the January 6th coup wouldn’t succeed that Trump told his insurrectionists to stand down.

He’s running on a track record of transpartisan success in fighting militarism and corporate power.

For a few years in the mid-1990s, AFSCME President Gerry McEntee (1935-2022) repositioned American labor and restored some of its clout.

Over half of incarcerated people in the survey have mental health issues and nearly half have substance use disorders.

Which progressive media has been on to for a very long time, but hey—welcome to the club.

Today on TAP: The bill introduced yesterday fixes many problems, but doesn’t really safeguard Americans’ right to vote.

How did such a key provision get axed?

The story of Maloney’s office shutting down a colleague who tried to stir up opposition to a fracked-gas plant is part of a pattern.

Joe Biden’s mishandling of the many episodes of the Joe Manchin follies imperiled a burning planet—and the executive actions he should take have not materialized.