Prospect

For decades, wealthy owners and financiers have gotten cities to pay for their sports stadiums. It’s not so easy anymore.

Next year in Washington will be all about the tax debate. In Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro is trying to accelerate corporate tax cuts, at odds with the top of the ticket.

She just needs to remember the positions she took as a senator from 2017 to 2020.

Today on TAP: A flawed understanding of today’s mild inflation leads the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates punishingly high.

Four decades of intensifying corporate concentration turned the music industry into a wasteland of institutionalized control and abuse. Are antitrust enforcers ready to reckon with that?

Both beneficiaries of crypto campaign spending and their opponents are desperately endorsing the technology.

Tech executives are jumping into the presidential election. Many of them also do business with the Pentagon.

Today on TAP: Crypto mega-investors and media monopolists threaten the Democrats.

Could a weaponized Trump IRS wreck the progressive infrastructure by attacking the entire nonprofit ecosystem?

Her campaign has their attention on social media. Now she needs to earn their votes.

Cori Bush faces off against Wesley Bell—and millions in super PAC money. But the story isn’t that simple.

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: Her choice to vet candidates for vice president needed more vetting himself.

Hey Republicans, your racism is showing.

Demographic crashes and rising costs threaten an entire segment of higher education.

‘What I saw is someone who is not for sale,’ Katie Porter told the Prospect.

A court rejects the claim of a tree-cutting company that an FTC ban on noncompetes violates its right to keep its former employees from going out on their own.

This week on our live show, David Dayen and Luke Goldstein dive into Kamala Harris’s record.

Today on TAP: Why is the Biden-Harris administration failing to enforce the labor provisions of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement?

Biden is out and Kamala is in. What does it mean?