Prospect

The U.S. position at a key WTO meeting on intellectual-property waivers for COVID vaccines will reveal which side Joe Biden is on.

Today on TAP: Sometimes a feeble compromise is worse than nothing.

Racial trauma research is having a new day as the scientific community finally acknowledges the burden of being Black.

The mall developer has spent over $30 million to buy the mayor’s seat in Los Angeles. But his policies and messaging are as fake as his shopping centers.

He is spending prodigious amounts on lobbying and elections to ensure that crypto is lightly regulated in the future.

Today on TAP: Wage growth continues to decelerate. Contrary to Larry Summers et al., wages are not driving price increases.

Maloney’s announcement that he will exit his old district for a slightly safer seat spells doom for Democrats. But he has long put personal interests over his party.

Two new books reveal the distortion of the U.S. health care system by financial operators.

Do Mainers want a governor to do the job or a petty chief executive to wreck the place again?

Israel relentlessly escalates its repression, and the BDS campaign has completely failed to deter it.

Today on TAP: Not the ones in our grade schools. The ones in Ukraine.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s bold plans for affordable housing run into old-school politics, perverse regulations, and limited home rule.

It’s not just Uvalde. Cops nationwide can’t stop crimes from happening or solve them once they’ve occurred.

Discontinuing the expanded Child Tax Credit has plunged millions of families back into poverty and its anxieties.

Thanks in large part to activist work from a group of debt strikers, over half a million borrowers of the defunct for-profit college chain will have their loans forgiven.

Today on TAP: Once again, he doesn’t check his facts and gets inflation wrong.

Inside the secretive, dubious, and extremely offline attempt to convert minorities into Republicans

This should lead Federal Reserve officials to hesitate before blindly hacking away at the economy.

One father’s wake-up call is illustrative as the VA attempts to outsource more care.

Today on TAP: In a signal victory last week, an activist group prevailed on a major bus manufacturer to hire its workers from local, historically disadvantaged communities.