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Biden’s Amazing Win Settling the Dock Strike
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Today on TAP: The terms are a total victory for dockworkers and for smooth supply chain operation, as the White House faced down exorbitant shipper profits. What would Trump have done?
11h ago
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Arlie Russell Hochschild returns to study the motivations of the left-behind right.
7h ago
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Rural America and Project 2025
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What would a second Trump term mean for rural communities?
8h ago
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Family Providers Face Barriers to Adding Abortion Services
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Malpractice insurance companies have piled on numerous restrictions and jacked up their rates. It’s become a new form of restricting access to abortion.
on Fri, 1PM
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Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity?
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A notorious health care looter claims a Senate investigation into his private equity–enabled hospital collapse is a superficial show trial. Did Gavin Newsom just prove him right?
on Fri, 1PM
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When Sean O’Brien Didn’t Like Trump
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Today on TAP: When he was running for the Teamster presidency in 2021, he clearly wasn’t a fan.
on Fri, 3AM
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The ins and outs of how the mega-rich wall themselves off from government’s prying eyes
on Fri, 1AM
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Philadelphia Chinatown Fights Back
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The 76ers, the city’s basketball team, has the studies and the mayor lined up for a new arena. Residents and allies believe their homes and culture are more valuable.
on Thu, 7PM
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CA-41: Will Rollins Connects the Dots
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In a tight race in the Inland Empire of California, Democratic challenger Rollins ties his opponent Rep. Ken Calvert’s real estate escapades to the area’s high housing costs.
on Thu, 11AM
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This time Republicans will try to steal the election before it happens.
on Thu, 3AM
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Today on TAP: We keep winning the arguments. Can we win the politics?
on Wed, 11PM
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Progressives Must Act Now to Shape Kamala Harris’s White House
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Now is the time for progressives to weigh in on jobs that don’t require Senate confirmation.
on Wed, 12PM
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It may not be about issues, but whether voters surrender to Trump’s invitation to return to the womb.
on Wed, 11AM
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A Toxic Explosion in Private Equity Payouts
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Private equity barons just pocketed as much as $850 million from the company behind this week’s massive chemical blast in Georgia.
on Wed, 11AM
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JD Vance’s Shape-Shifting Revisionist History
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Trump’s VP candidate projects a fictitious moderation, while Tim Walz struggled to pull off his mask.
on Wed, 7AM
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Why the Longshore Workers Strike Is Economically Justified
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Today on TAP: And why politically it could be a disaster
on Wed, 1AM
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VP Debate: Vance Should Address Unanswered Questions Raised by ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
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Vance’s rise was spurred by his questionable views on race, ethnicity.
on Tue, 8PM
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The Self-Imposed October Surprise
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The Education Department’s protections for student loan borrowers who have missed payments end today.
on Tue, 1PM
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How a near-monopoly gained control of most of the nation’s electronic medical records, to the detriment of medical practice and doctor morale
on Tue, 11AM
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Will Democratic Reformers Save America?
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Donald Trump has reshaped the electorate, but by focusing on the cost of living, Harris could still make meaningful gains.
on Tue, 11AM
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Today on TAP: Will Mayor Eric Adams be forced to resign? Will Andrew Cuomo succeed him? Does a progressive mayoral candidate have a shot?
on Mon, 10PM
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Private Equity Is Taking Your Calls
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Two firms control the market for telecommunications assistance for deaf people. They have extracted higher rates for this government-funded service, while denying workers a union.
on Mon, 10PM
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How Congress Gets Its Groove Back
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The Supreme Court’s recent rulings will change how Congress writes laws. It may even force the legislative branch to take a hard look at its own dysfunctions.
on Mon, 10AM
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In which New York’s mayor used massive fraud to win his election, and Turkey’s president proved to be an idiot about American politics
on Mon, 10AM
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Not Enjoying the Mark Cuban for President Campaign
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The billionaire seems to be driving some Harris campaign messaging.
on Sun, 12AM
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Deb Haaland has been a remarkable secretary of the interior. But the future is about funding in Congress.
on Sun, 12AM
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Less Than 40 Days Till the Election
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This week on our live show, David and Emma talk about the most interesting Senate races in play this November.
on Sep 27
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Harris and Trump’s foreign-policy aims in the Middle East proceed from the same incentive structures and presuppositions about U.S. supremacy.
on Sep 27
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‘Men’s Rights and Nothing More, Women’s Rights and Nothing Less’
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Saving America from the Comstock Act and other repressive remnants of the 19th-century past
on Sep 27
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Water Is Not the Problem With Artificial Intelligence
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Data centers are nothing compared to cattle farming.
on Sep 27
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Today on TAP: To win the blue-wall states, Harris needs to drive home the progressive populist planks she unveiled yesterday.
on Sep 26
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Project 2025 shows that Republicans can’t take heat—so they’d try to blow up the kitchen if they get the chance.
on Sep 26
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Harris Has a Manufacturing Agenda—in a Fact Sheet
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Her speech on the economy was guarded. The details laid out by the campaign paint a brighter picture.
on Sep 26
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Mark Robinson Is the Future of the GOP
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Republicans can run, but they can’t hide from themselves.
on Sep 26
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Rural America’s Project 2025 Problem
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Trump is promising major disruptions for small-town communities. Yet residents still favor him over Kamala Harris’s development and investment approach.
on Sep 25
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The Justice Department Challenges Visa’s Predatory Power
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Today on TAP: The giant credit card company offers a textbook case in abuse of market power to buy off or crush potential competitors and reap excess profits at consumer expense.
on Sep 25
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A Crossroads on Corporate Power
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Where would Harris and Trump take antitrust enforcement?
on Sep 25
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Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?
on Sep 25
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While Campaigning for Catholic Votes, Trump Echoes the Klan
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Today on TAP: He’ll speak at the Al Smith Dinner, while reviving the same hateful attacks that were levied against Smith.
on Sep 25
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Too much of the profession operates as the ideological department of predatory capitalism.
on Sep 24
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America’s Climate and Economy Are on the Ballot
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The Biden-Harris administration sowed the seeds of a green American economy. A second Trump term would poison them.
on Sep 24
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Today on TAP: All polls are prisoners of subjective assumptions. As a great student of public opinion said, ‘Don’t speak too soon, for the wheel’s still in spin.’
on Sep 24