Prospect

Today on TAP: Who gains politically if the bipartisan border bill stays blocked? The losers are the vast majority of voters who want the crisis solved.

It may have had to do with his recent announcement on stopping goods made with forced labor, which potentially swayed a Republican China hawk to vote no.

Economists like Larry Summers predicted that bringing inflation down would require a large increase in unemployment. It didn’t.

Trump, Republican governors, and MAGA media have summoned their armed fanatics to the Rio Grande.

Global Strategy Group, which once worked for Amazon to prevent union organizing in its warehouses, is doing polling for the pro-Israel candidate.

Today on TAP: Some UAW teaching assistants object to their union’s endorsement of Biden. That’s understandable but idiotic.

Conservative states have now taken to blocking liberal cities from even thinking about legislating on behalf of their residents.

Why even an elite Boston hospital can feel like a makeshift infirmary in a war zone

A new paper outlines how to avoid worsening market concentration in semiconductors with billions in subsidies for U.S. onshoring.

A new paper outlines how to avoid worsening market concentration in semiconductors with billions in subsidies for U.S. onshoring.

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If Democrats hang tough, Republican attempts to sabotage the bipartisan immigration bill may yet backfire on the far right.

Paul Krugman’s (and many Democrats’) beliefs about the economy and crime miss the reality that Americans still experience.

The latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 concerns who is allowed to sue to enforce it.

Between its stalled counteroffensive and divisions in the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is stuck in a doom loop.

Today on TAP: That would do the whole world a giant service—including Israel. Biden’s own re-election could depend on it.

Workers can win union elections, but companies pull out all the stops to prevent them from obtaining a first contract.

He needs to highlight his positions against the Republicans’. And not give away too much in interim deals.

Why the attack on UNRWA looks a lot like collective punishment

Today on TAP: In Alabama and Tennessee, workers are signing up with the union at VW, Hyundai, and Mercedes.