Prospect

Reflections on a week in the age of corporate power

Amid an ongoing Department of Justice inquiry, the Texas-based real estate tech company RealPage is prized for its analysis in mainstream media.

The sentencing of rapper Tory Lanez for shooting Megan Thee Stallion highlights decades of injustice.

Today on TAP: It grows hard to distinguish the Putinists from Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Alexander Reid Ross and organizer Tobita Chow discuss.

A new paper shows underinvesting in government comes at a staggering cost.

A Montana judge delivers a stunning, historic decision on the Mountain West state’s culpability for surging climate dangers that hit young people hard.

Gambling site Kalshi is spending big on a lobbying campaign to allow people to bet on the end of the American republic.

Today on TAP: How America’s most predatory hedge funds deepened Argentina’s economic miseries and helped invite a far-right reaction

Dave Weigel and Lola Blanc discuss the Republican presidential primary.

It doesn’t matter what happens in the courts—conservatives are already committed to political show trials against their enemies.

It’s become a proxy for Republican battles about both national security and Kevin McCarthy’s job security.

Dewey Square Group, where Minyon Moore leads State and Local Affairs, was paid millions of dollars last year by a Lyft-funded industry group fighting state labor protections.

Today on TAP: As the Georgia indictments make all too clear.

Donald Trump has been indicted for a fourth time. Good.

The ‘Dobbs’ decision and conservative policies mean teenage rape victims are forced to give birth in dangerous, threadbare hospitals.

As the world’s second-largest economy deals with multiple problems, is it time for a cozier relationship?

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is taking aim at the practice of borrowers exchanging the title of their vehicle for a small-dollar loan.

Today on TAP: His industrial-policy programs are great. How much of an election year difference can they make?

The Sacklers might actually get their legal immunity stripped, by the Supreme Court of all people.