Prospect

1998–2024

It’s a good start, but it won’t produce true affordability.

Six hundred New Orleans nurses join a national surge in pre-contract strikes.

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

The president of the United States outlines his economic principles, and his record.

Today on TAP: Why did he not get more credit?

The incoming president’s transition team is making the case for reviving some long-buried monsters.

Since the fall of ‘Roe,’ abortion debt has become a major phenomenon in the country. The Debt Collective is trying to do something about it.

On our live show, David and Paul Starr discuss the triumph and tragedy of immigration.

Today on TAP: A sweetheart appointment to a key trade position goes to a White House spouse, paired with a hardcore Republican free-trader.

Some health care problems, like Luigi Mangione’s excruciating back pain, are complex and mysterious. But the ultimate villain is pretty straightforward.

76 Place, a controversial NBA arena proposal, has drawn criticism most recently from the transit agency expected to serve it, but team owners have steamrolled the city council into submission.

Evidence shows that phones harm children and education. A growing number of schools are paying attention.

Jason Reitman’s new film about the origins of ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces a consideration of how the show turned into comfort food for its scared, self-satisfied liberal audiences.

Today on TAP: Yesterday, S&M voted to hand the NLRB over to union-busting Republicans.

The Robinson-Patman Act, dormant for decades, is invoked in a case alleging that Southern Glazer’s favored big-box stores over independent rivals.

The FTC chair lost her job on the same day she added another legal victory. The neo-Brandeisian efforts to convince judges to revive antitrust could have staying power.

The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters

How the cold civil war shares characteristics with the hot one