Prospect

Countrywide protests against China’s zero-COVID measures seek to force policy changes—and maybe more.

Today on TAP: Maybe the law schools will start an overdue stampede.

Imperial County, one of the most depressed areas in America, has a clean-energy fortune stored deep in an underground reservoir. Can it be extracted, and will downtrodden residents see the benefits?

Kanye West, Herschel Walker seem pleased with the Pandora’s box of horrors they’ve opened. But when mental health comes into play, this game becomes far more insidious.

Louisa Terrell, before becoming Biden’s director of legislative affairs, spent two years at Facebook at a key time.

Today on TAP: A Commerce Department investigation found that Chinese companies shipped solar panels through Southeast Asian countries to circumvent U.S. trade law.

Georgia youths are surging to the polls and could play a decisive role in the December 6 runoff election.

Dorothy DeWitt, who was general counsel at Coinbase, is the New York senator’s new chief counsel for finance.

This is about Wall Street demands for giant profits. Bad labor law gives Democrats few options, but there remain steps that President Biden can take.

Some serious scholarship (and some Springsteen and Sinatra)

Today on TAP: And that’s hardly the only labor news in a tumultuous week.

A new book shows how corporate law firms bear great responsibility for the degradation of the rule of law.

A Supreme Court case being heard next week will begin to test whether the elimination of rights in ‘Dobbs’ will remain limited to abortion.

On the COVID-19 vaccines, well, you have to hand it to him.

On how to stop a history of recurrent exploitation

Today on TAP: In France, pharmacy chains are illegal. The result: local ownership, better service, and more price competition.

What America and the world can learn from the Faroe Islands

Calendar logs from the first seven months of her tenure at Commerce show 230 different meetings with CEOs, top executives, or trade groups.

The Union of Southern Service Workers is organizing food service, retail, and health care workers through direct action against low wages and historical racism.

Today on TAP: Some progress in the University of California strike, but nowhere near enough. And by the way, where’s Gavin?