Prospect

Budget airlines Frontier and Spirit, buoyed by a private equity investor, announced a merger earlier this week. But a revamped antitrust enforcement atmosphere awaits.

‘Apartheid’ is how an Amnesty International report last week characterized Israeli rule. Every group under the sun reacted, but there was no story in the Times.

Parting Shot in our February 2022 issue

Today on TAP: Biden is said to be considering Jay Shambaugh, former head of the Hamilton Project, as the Treasury’s top international official.

After a decade of flooding the market with cheap fossil fuels, investors have cut back on production.

Are investors valuing consolidation over innovation? Thrasio and its look-alikes make that a hard question to answer.

Counterfeit masks are as widely available as the real thing, outpacing the federal agencies’ ability to crack down on scammers.

How monopolization in the meatpacking and processing industry affects us all

Today on TAP: They will all probably be confirmed, but first Sen. Ben Ray Luján needs to recover to get the Dems back to 50 votes.

A decision on whether to open a costly cancer drug to generic competition will be made shortly. It doesn’t require congressional approval.

The disruptions, and the subsequent circumventions, have accelerated Amazon and Walmart’s takeover at the expense of independent retailers.

The effort to counter China’s ‘malign influence’ would fund negative coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—while also beefing up the U.S.’s international lending.

The vaccine developed at the Walter Reed Army Institute should not be privatized for maximum profit.

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