Prospect

Today on TAP: The legislature already stopped cities from passing laws they don’t like; now they’re claiming they can supersede federal law, too.

The White House nominates SEIU’s longtime general counsel to a seat on the Fourth Circuit.

Human cashiers make a comeback in some grocery and retail stores.

A major U.S. Supreme Court case could be on the horizon as the Lone Star State takes international matters into its own hands.

Today on TAP: The Biden administration has to slow-walk a marquee agreement, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. That might even be a blessing in disguise.

The billionaire philanthropist’s donations come with strings attached.

Neil Kraus discusses his new book about why education reform failed.

A Capitol Hill hearing highlights how much labor unions have won this year, as well as the Republicans who are furious over it.

Meet the new Speaker of the House, same as the old one.

Today on TAP: In support of striking mechanics, dockworkers there are no longer unloading Teslas. Such solidarity isn’t legal here.

The Democratic strategist who was thrown out of his own firm for gambling on races he polled, working for crypto firms, and allegedly engaging in campaign finance violations is back.

Pennsylvania’s governor delivered after his state’s highway fire five months ago. Newsom’s crisis with the 10 Freeway in Los Angeles is significantly more complicated.

Bard is remarkably candid about the company’s intentions to leverage Big Data into AI to make its rivals, and the rest of the web, irrelevant.

A generic cold medicine available in Europe also turns out to have benefits for Parkinson’s. Biden could prevent the usual effort to patent it and jack up the price.

Today on TAP: Trump, Netanyahu, and the resurgence of antisemitism

A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.

Check out the ages of the candidates likely to appear on next November’s ballot and tell me the Democrats wouldn’t do better by going younger.

It turns out that most parents are repelled by howling red-faced bigots threatening teachers and trying to ban books.

In New York, the business lobby resorts to apocalyptic ads to stop a ban on noncompete provisions.

Today on TAP: Does student support for Palestinian rights promote violence at home?