Prospect

Today on TAP: The White House and Congress endeavor to empower groups of employees, as Republicans try out a sham empowerment of their own.

With warehouse capacity at a premium, businesses try to get goods and move them out as global economic chaos disrupts long-held ideas about stocking stuff just in time.

The Odyssey of Todd Gitlin

An ocean shipping regulatory bill got attached to a broader reshoring bill. There’s now an emerging bipartisan agenda to dismantle misguided, corporate-friendly policies.

The U.S. and Russia have vied to serve Europe with energy since the 1940s. The current tensions in Ukraine must be viewed in that context.

The comic book industry halted production in 2020 and a supply chain crisis bubbled in 2021, hitting retailers and fans alike.

Today on TAP: The case for an excess profits tax

The yearly turnover rate among long-haul truckers is 94 percent. And you wonder why you’re not getting your orders on time?

John Deere refuses to allow farmers to repair their own equipment. That’s because it wants to control farm technology and data, critics contend.

Studies show that prevailing-wage laws uplift workers without increasing project costs. They should be expanded to state and local service contracts.

Today on TAP: The Portuguese Socialist Party wins an absolute governing majority.

Rail deregulation led to consolidation, price-gouging, and a variant of just-in-time unloading that left no slack in the system.

Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, and it takes a metropolitan regional government to coordinate the growth in housing, transit, and employment that makes the region livable.

At NBC and CNN, Zucker was key to Trump’s rise.

A 2015 federal report predicted the entire slowdown that’s come to pass.

Negotiations loom between the dockworkers union and shipping companies making record profits.

Before entering the Senate, Ossoff had more than half his net worth in Apple stock; it’s now in a blind trust. Today, he must vote on legislation affecting the company.

The Manchin empire extends to a nondescript nursing home in deep coal country. It’s a relic of a social welfare system that has collapsed.

Dumping the subminimum-wage standard ($2.13 an hour?!) they labor under would certainly help—and now may be more politically possible.

Today on TAP: Lujan’s stroke temporarily deprives Democrats of a Senate working majority.