Prospect

Historian Chad Pearson talks about the violent enforcers of business rule before World War I.

Today on TAP: Misleading reports on the rising cost of dinner are feeding the Fed’s appetite for more perverse rate hikes.

Workers accuse the company of refusing to bargain in good faith for a union contract.

The Republican plan to win the midterms on racist crime messaging failed miserably.

The ticketing monopoly may have messed with the wrong group of millions of rabid fans.

My new book analyzes the 55-year-old rift, now grown to a chasm, in which the right’s remaking of and romance with Israel has detached young U.S. Jews from organized Judaism.

Today on TAP: Nancy Pelosi steps down.

Saving democracy does not resonate when the forces of reaction are gearing up for the next offensive.

Forget Washington’s urgency to design a regulatory regime for crypto. It’s better to treat it like any other illegal operation.

Contrary to Thomas Friedman, Wall Street still makes a killing from China at the expense of workers.

Today on TAP: He gets to cheat his customers, write off debts, and then keep control of his company? (Yup, that’s how bankruptcy often works for big dogs.)

The White House is considering a finance recruit whose career has been directly at odds with all of President Biden’s accomplishments.

By refusing to hold a hearing for the chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Joe Manchin is damaging an existing effort to improve permitting for electric transmission lines.

Trump and the Freedom Caucus are going to unleash chaos in their own party.

Today on TAP: How Bidenomics actually worked

In the latest ruling, the Eighth Circuit turned a non-plaintiff into a plaintiff.

Democrats have only begun to do better in rural America—but the road map is there.

Why Democrats win the cities and lose the states, and what to do about it.

Today on TAP: With luck, his fall will take the whole crypto sector with him.

The restraint of congressional overrides is probably gone.