Prospect

The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.

The new film charts the conflict between making a good product and pleasing investors.

Today on TAP: California’s senior senator is doing her country, her party, and herself no favors by clinging to office.

A litany of red flags in Michael Delaney’s record has delayed his judicial confirmation for months. But few will speak out.

Voting in state legislative primary races is under way, and North Carolina’s new abortion restrictions will reverberate across the electorate.

On today’s X-Date, how the relationship between Punchbowl News and Kevin McCarthy is driving a bad resolution to the debt ceiling crisis

Aaron Regunberg has a shot to win a congressional special election in Rhode Island this fall, but a left-wing group has blasted him for not being progressive enough.

Today on TAP: Stock buybacks hit new records last year. They should be banned outright.

On today’s X-Date, how passing a bill gave Kevin McCarthy a momentary advantage that has yet to be counteracted

Maybe by 2100 America can have a proper tax authority.

The Biden administration is promoting a new liquefied natural gas complex on the Pacific Coast, with expanded subsidies from the bipartisan infrastructure bill and Inflation Reduction Act.

Today on TAP: Doctors in Philly and auto (well, actually, bus) workers in rural Georgia both go union big-time.

On today’s X-Date: Watch out for Act II, the annual budget process for the new fiscal year that begins October 1, when Democrats will be playing a weaker hand.

Half of Americans, namely homeowners, already have rent control. It’s time to expand it to everyone.

The supposed mistreatment of an article that criticized leftist assaults on scientific objectivity was itself a fake. Why did the editors of The New York Times take this fraud seriously?

Kuttner on TAP: Should he go all out to support domestic manufacture, or keep the flow of solar panels coming from China?

In search of a deal on energy (and maybe the debt ceiling), the White House puts the West Virginia senator at the center of the action.

More than halfway into the Biden administration, Democrats don’t have a majority at a key agency. The likely nominee to end that has plenty of experience but a corporate past.

Today’s X-Date: A two-year spending cap is going to harm millions of Americans.

Today on TAP: But don’t bet the farm on a saner monetary policy.