Prospect

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

Today on TAP: Go off-campus, says a veteran strike and bargaining maven, and visit the offices of regents and legislators. And sit down and settle in there.

There were high hopes when a Democratic majority returned to decide labor law, but more than a year in, critical rulings have not been issued, a group of labor lawyers and organizers say.

Will Senate Democrats let Republicans use an arcane Senate ‘tradition’ to block Biden’s judicial nominees?

Linda Greenhouse, the doyenne of Supreme Court journalism, considers the crisis of confidence that has marred the Court’s legitimacy.

A new book details the extreme forms of surveillance imposed on long-haul truckers, robbing them of their power.

Today on TAP: 51-49 is far more powerful than 50-50—and provides some insurance for 2024.

A discussion of the blowup at FTX and the role of political and media elites

Unions are fighting to ensure solar workers are skilled tradesmen, not just exploited temps.

Stablecoin legislation is the most likely crypto policy in the next Congress. But the top firms all face questions from law enforcement.

Tesla has tried to cut out the middleman, and other automakers are following suit.