Prospect

Today on TAP: Powell’s astonishingly ignorant response to easing inflation pressures

The rapid arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried offers a small bit of hope that we’ve turned the page on an era of no accountability.

Recent data shows a strong possibility that inflation will come down on its own.

It took about half a decade for crypto magnates to recreate all the problems that blew up Wall Street in 2008.

1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Today on TAP: The NLRB goes after employer lawbreaking, while the FTC—just this once?—disregards workers’ concerns.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition charges that the bank failed to follow through on written commitments that helped get a merger approved.

In the face of mounting evidence that inflation is easing, the Fed clings to a perverse monetary policy. What will its meeting this week produce?

The housing crisis and the climate crisis have shaped mayoral and city council elections in Texas’s fast-growing capital city.

Today on TAP: Higher interest rates and the cost of Christmas trees

With stakes so high, challenging our Democratic establishment ‘extremists’ and cultural elites is a start.

Greg Casar, a former city council member from Austin, Texas, says yes.

Low water levels have pushed shippers who typically use river barges to use freight rail. But decades of strangled capacity makes rail a bad bet, too.

Today on TAP: He deserves our thanks, but 2024 could be trouble.

The Vermont senator leads over 70 members of Congress urging the president to sign an executive order extending sick days for federal contract workers to the rail industry.

Wall Street watchdog Adrienne Harris said her department would release climate change guidance for banks in 2022. She’s yet to publish a draft.

Black athletes are uplifted for their talent but denigrated for speaking out. Still some are compelled to bear that burden.

A new history of the civil rights movement gets a lot right but falls short in trying to reframe the story.

Illiberal leaders, by inclination and also in hopes of avoiding the slammer

A discussion of issues affecting veterans and why progressives should pay more attention to veterans affairs