Prospect

Today on TAP: You owe it to yourself to see the original, not the biopic.

Nick Hanauer and Joan Walsh explain how rich people lie to benefit themselves.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants to mandate anti-speeding technology. It sounds like a no-brainer, but the opportunities for cybersecurity breaches are greater.

New Jersey’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary, likely the end of the road for twice-indicted Robert Menendez, will be shaped by similarly distasteful machine politics.

An updated document from the Office of Management and Budget will make it easier to enact regulations.

Today on TAP: Americans’ economic views are at odds with Americans’ economic behavior. So, whence those views?

A ‘humanitarian pause’ is insufficient to deal with the Gaza crisis.

Understanding the deeper dynamics of predatory capitalism

The company refuses to play ball with its Swedish mechanics union. So the labor movement is shutting it down.

Today on TAP: Hill Republicans want to oust FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, citing sexual harassment elsewhere in the agency. The real issue is Gruenberg’s tough regulation of banks.

The clean-energy transition is faltering because of unexpectedly high interest rates, which Summers’s demands to slow down the economy helped usher in.

Gamurs Group fired the editor in chief of The Escapist. Most of the publication joined him to start something new, a worker cooperative called Second Wind.

Herewith, some suggestions.

Jezebel is widely blamed for starting “cancel culture.” But 16 years ago, most culture desperately needed to be canceled.

Today on TAP: What’s really going on with the economy?

An idea for a confederal system for Israel and Palestine is impossible to enact today. But it’s a vision that must be worked toward.

In 2024, the most progressive Democrats in the House face attacks from several directions.

Voters rejected groups like Moms for Liberty. But conservative activists don’t need a majority to whittle away trust in public education.

The Court wrote a new ethics code for itself. It’s all but meaningless.

Today on TAP: The legislature already stopped cities from passing laws they don’t like; now they’re claiming they can supersede federal law, too.