Prospect

Today on TAP: He’s been a terrific president. Why are his ratings so consistently low?

Earned wage access is pitched as a way to instantly get money for paid work. But companies attach high fees, and they are seeking exemptions from consumer protection laws.

The supervisors knew exactly what was happening at the bank, and were institutionally incapable of acting. This isn’t an isolated incident.

While employers illegally suppress blue-collar, retail and service workers, professionals and proto-professionals are unionizing in droves.

Today on TAP: But a weakened banking system, coupled with a Fed that is hawkish on rates but kind and gentle on financial regulation, could be the economy’s undoing.

The zombie bank is now in a staring match with potential purchasers and regulators. Ultimately, a failure of oversight caused this mess.

Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.

Finally getting Netflix to air her special on her terms, the actress and comedian has become a beacon for people, like her, who’ve had to struggle against social norms.

The American Clean Power Association has endorsed fossil fuel initiatives and their allies in Washington.

Today on TAP: Negotiating with the GOP would be a disaster, but not negotiating has political perils, too. Which leaves—what?

A neofascist who opposes corporate globalism is still a neofascist—and a threat to democracy.

The GOP answer to anger about its abortion, climate, and gun control crusades is to double down.

Today on TAP: Who bought all that stock, as the retailer was on the route to bankruptcy?

Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants.

The justices are sensitive to political pressure. Senate Democrats can impose that pressure through investigation.

Republicans have been blasting right-wing propaganda at the judiciary for 50 years.

Tucker Carlson was fired from his Fox News job. Nobody has deserved it more.

Today on TAP: His announcement of candidacy highlights the Republicans’ campaign against personal freedom.

Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class.

At a time when Democrats are savaging House Republicans for expanding work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP, their signature child care bill also contains them.