Prospect

What looked like a knotty but possible way forward promises to be undone by congressional chaos agents.

Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.

Monday, Oct. 16: Join us for a meet and greet in Brooklyn, New York, with David Dayen and Majority Report host Sam Seder.

Weds., Oct. 11: Join us in Palm Springs, California, for an evening of politics and comedy -- with drinks! Featuring Ryan Cooper, David Dayen, Francesca Fiorentini, Bob Kuttner, Harold Meyerson, Maureen Tkacik, and more...

Matt Gaetz successfully removed a speaker of the House for the first time in American history. Good.

Today on TAP: The Republican uncivil war is a partisan gift to Democrats, but it does vast institutional damage to Congress’s capacity to govern.

The American Legislative Exchange Council is where corporations and far-right groups go to buy government policy.

Fear and loathing at the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s annual gala

Billions of dollars in public pension fund money flow to private equity–owned firms that union-bust, violate labor laws, and put workers’ safety at risk.

Today on TAP: In California (not to mention America), the racial and ethnic politics of representation are inescapable.

Oral arguments today saw the justices skeptical that the Constitution doesn’t allow Congress to fund the CFPB in a particular fashion.

Agri Stats lets meat processors coordinate their pricing. The Justice Department finally decided to go after what it calls collusion.

A change to public records laws, which takes effect today, allows legislators full discretion to retain, sell, or destroy their own documents.

Will they survive an intense and preposterous lobbying campaign by the U.S. platform giants to brand them as discriminatory against American companies?

Today on TAP: Should House Democrats save McCarthy’s Speakership?

Hollywood screenwriters won their strike, while the UAW strike is ramping up. What’s next?

Gubernatorial elections this fall in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana may clarify where Democrats can, and can’t, run on abortion.

Adjusting wages to the rising costs of living, as the UAW is demanding, is necessary, but the gap between investment income and wages will still keep rising.

Revolving Door Project research reveals that right-wing elites in the Horatio Alger Association stand to benefit from a lawsuit attempting to destroy the CFPB. The group has close ties to Clarence Thomas.

Today on TAP: Most of the sources of inflation are either the result of the Fed’s own policy, or have nothing to do with domestic demand, such as the rising price of oil.