Prospect

‘Buy now, pay later,’ the latest fashion in consumer debt, is even worse than credit cards.

A proposed cap on co-payments won’t do anything for those without insurance.

Today on TAP: How come Schumer moved the confirmation forward to floor action if the votes weren’t there?

Texas, the only state without universal workers’ comp, leads the nation in workplace injuries and deaths. It’s Latino workers on unregulated construction sites who fare the worst.

The Republican caucus tries to protect a bank’s right to rip off its customers.

The administration’s highest-ranking COVID official built his wealth through billing practices that have been alleged as fraud, triggering hundreds of millions in fines.

DraftKings and FanDuel have maximized internet surveillance to wring as much out of their customers as possible.

US courts are a dystopian mess from the Supreme Court down to the county level.

At Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse, workers have broken through corporate America’s unified, furious opposition to giving employees a voice on the job.

Today on TAP: The failure of Manchin, Sinema, and Kelly to confirm David Weil as the top official cracking down on wage theft is not principled moderation. It’s all about corporate money.

Nobody will tell you, but Congress came closer to re-regulating an economic sector while the president began the wartime mobilization of clean energy.

Taxis and the ride-hailing company end their feud; they had no other choice.

A new book considers how colleges and universities should deal with committed racists.

Because that’s the kind of thing that TV ‘news’ does.

Today on TAP: That master of foreign and military policy, George W. Bush

Justin Bibb’s election signals a new era in Cleveland, but it remains unclear how his progressive rhetoric will translate into governing.

American cities are (finally) beginning to hear about social housing.

After months of complaints over basic safety standards, a majority of workers in a fabrication plant demanded union recognition, but the company refused and retaliated.

Today on TAP: The price-gouging in affordable housing units has nothing to do with other sources of inflation.

Jennifer Abruzzo, general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, has outlined an agenda that would transform the American workplace.