Prospect

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.

Amazon’s heavy-handed tactics triggered an explosion of organizing from inside its Staten Island warehouse, leading to a union victory.

Appreciating the wisdom of Todd Gitlin—and what his insights about the 1960s tell us about the present moment

‘Buy now, pay later,’ the latest fashion in consumer debt, is even worse than credit cards.

A proposed cap on co-payments won’t do anything for those without insurance.

Today on TAP: How come Schumer moved the confirmation forward to floor action if the votes weren’t there?

Texas, the only state without universal workers’ comp, leads the nation in workplace injuries and deaths. It’s Latino workers on unregulated construction sites who fare the worst.

The Republican caucus tries to protect a bank’s right to rip off its customers.

The administration’s highest-ranking COVID official built his wealth through billing practices that have been alleged as fraud, triggering hundreds of millions in fines.

DraftKings and FanDuel have maximized internet surveillance to wring as much out of their customers as possible.

US courts are a dystopian mess from the Supreme Court down to the county level.

At Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse, workers have broken through corporate America’s unified, furious opposition to giving employees a voice on the job.

Today on TAP: The failure of Manchin, Sinema, and Kelly to confirm David Weil as the top official cracking down on wage theft is not principled moderation. It’s all about corporate money.

Nobody will tell you, but Congress came closer to re-regulating an economic sector while the president began the wartime mobilization of clean energy.

Taxis and the ride-hailing company end their feud; they had no other choice.