Prospect

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

Instead of giving in to cynicism, Congress created an agency to protect consumers. The Supreme Court declined to overrule it.

Today on TAP: If there’s presidential immunity, why not congressional?

The factors are partly structural, but also have to do with a corporate drive for profits and use of technology to precision-target customers.

The preferred journals of the power elite peddle the myth of pending Social Security catastrophe, which is catastrophically wrong.

Despite efforts to rein in emissions, state is unlikely to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, group says.

Today on TAP: Once again, mainstream analysts and Fed economists miss the real story in the latest inflation numbers—which is hidden in plain view if you bother to look.

Despite spending $62 million of his own fortune on the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. David Trone lost last night to county executive Angela Alsobrooks.

A redistricting case from Louisiana that could get resolved today illustrates the way conservative judges handle voting rights cases with their thumbs on the scale.

A Q&A with Eman Abdelhadi, a Palestinian University of Chicago professor, about encampments, dialogue, and mutual respect

Today on TAP: The party’s message wins strong support. Not so its top messenger.

The Biden administration is protecting its investment in a domestic auto industry. Domestic auto producers have to rise to the moment.

It comes in two flavors, economic and psychological.

The VA secretary’s professed ignorance about a report he commissioned describing an ‘existential threat’ to his agency is alarming.

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They’ll let us know by Tuesday night (unless the count takes longer).

Today on TAP: His policies on a broad range of issues are superb. Why don’t they translate into electoral appeal?

FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.

Capitalism and communism suppress workers; social democracy empowers them.

An energy regulatory decision today could carve out the path for fully renewable energy in America, by attacking the central challenge of transmission capacity.