Prospect

Four auditing firms examine the books of nearly every big U.S. company, in a process riddled with conflicts of interest. But federal monitoring is making a comeback under new leadership.

Today on TAP: Those two unions and that president (if re-elected) hold the greatest promise for reviving working-class power.

The company has a reputation as a good employer, some of that due to a legacy union membership. Workers had to stand up to prevent backsliding.

Abortion rights supporters have their work cut out for them after the state attorney general certifies a constitutional amendment.

Migrants released by ICE after dark often must rely on the kindness of strangers and sheer luck or risk spending long nights on the street.

Today on TAP: That’s another case for the revival of antitrust.

Does Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic deserve all its accolades?

Republican fealty to their master demagogue is undiminished, as New Hampshire demonstrated yesterday.

Reduced inflation across the economy magnifies the sectors where high markups persist.

Author and scholar John Ganz on how Europe’s interwar period informs the present

Today on TAP: In getting repeatedly blown off by Bibi, Biden looks as ineffectual as he did when he was repeatedly blown off by Joe Manchin.

The three Democrats running for Senate have different positions on the war.

The ‘de minimis’ exemption allows Chinese e-commerce companies Shein and Temu to deliver hundreds of millions of packages of cheap clothing without tariffs or inspections.

When supposed national champions sell out the national interest

The Unfathomable Mystery

Today on TAP: Nikki Haley has astutely made Trump’s impairment an issue. Let’s see how it plays.

So much bad, so much good, so much old, so much new …

He has to dig himself out of three holes if he has any chance to beat Donald Trump.

A coalition of companies like Cargill and Chevron hired new lobbyists as it works to convince policymakers that so-called ‘renewable natural gas’ should get government subsidies.

Today on TAP: Wisdom from Justice Louis Brandeis