Prospect

The Left Anchor hosts discuss recent setbacks and defeats of global right-wing forces.

Today on TAP: Key progressive wins prefigure the road back to democracy.

The alleged science doesn’t match up to the real world.

There are lots of problems with the review the Fed has announced of supervision and regulation in the wake of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.

The text of the American Rescue Plan has numerous references to the COVID public-health emergency. What happens when that emergency ends on May 11?

Today on TAP: You’ll get the Donald aplenty elsewhere.

Reforms are needed to ensure that inaccurate budgetary math doesn’t take precedence over maximizing long-term prosperity.

An independent body that could investigate systemic risk in the banking system would break the insular cycle of banking regulators and the firms they regulate.

The checkoff program, intended for marketing promotion but used as a slush fund for consolidated agricultural interests, is facing pressure for reform.

Today on TAP: If everything breaks just right, democracy will still take a long time to heal.

The distorting power of macroeconomic policy models

Seemingly complex and sophisticated econometric modeling often fails to take into account common sense and observable reality.

The Windy City’s second-largest racial group will prove decisive in tomorrow’s election.

Government lawyers would rather approve 30 years of Arctic drilling than lose in court.

Policy, shmolicy. Republicans are the party of rage and retribution.

Today on TAP: And the industry keeps complaining about regulators doing their jobs.

By seeking declaratory judgments on its rules, the administration can preempt right-wing efforts at forum-shopping.

Eye-popping power bills have devastated midsized companies across Europe. But thanks to a sadistic EU energy privatization regimen called the Target Model, no one has been hit harder than Greece.

The CEO of the city Chamber of Commerce, a venture capitalist–backed former Democratic state senator, and a left-wing former mayoral candidate are the leading hopefuls.

Today on TAP: With public schools under attack, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten counters the right wing’s slanders.