Prospect

Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.

As an example of the promise of long-term investment in child care and early learning, it was wildly successful. But the money runs out soon.

Republicans’ culture-war legislation is both wedge-issue politics and a subjugation of women and minorities.

This Tennessee representative married a college undergraduate when he was 45.

Today on TAP: Comparing the Senate’s decorous treatment of Thurgood Marshall with the Republican inquisition of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.

A deeply reported history of the past four decades of handing public services over to private companies provides a stunning account of how not to govern.

Parting Shot in our April 2022 issue

Eric Boehlert was the model media critic—and much, much more.

Today on TAP: The NLRB’s general counsel asks the Board to ban ‘captive audience’ meetings, in which workers are compelled to hear employers’ anti-union rants.

It turns out voters hate it when you snatch away hundreds of dollars a month. Who knew?

The rot at the core of the Senate turns Supreme Court confirmation hearings into gratuitous distractions—or frequently, worse.

The NLRB can—as originally intended—quickly facilitate worker organization. But workers need to act fast before the Supreme Court cancels their efforts.

Adrian Vermeule has a new constitutional theory that hides its religious foundations.

Today on TAP: If President Biden wants to avoid mass student loan defaults, he can cancel the debt.

Effectively all standard containers used in global shipping are made by Chinese state-owned enterprises. The dangers of that circumstance revealed themselves during the pandemic.

From Canada to Panama, tugboat workers are being squeezed as shipping companies earn record profits.

A new bill would prevent traders, farmers, and industrial users of water from betting on price swings.

The ‘laranja’ business, as seen in Iraqi Kurdistan

Today on TAP: Rupert Murdoch’s editorialists disparage Biden’s stance against Saudi murderers.