Today on TAP: Gone are the days when all Americans could take pride in space travel
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inBuilding Back America
The Infrastructure Success Story in Chattanooga
Some of the fastest broadband speeds in the world come from this Tennessee city’s public network. It could be replicated across the country.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Stealing Ur Website
Innovations in journalistic pilferage at the Financial Times
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
Posted inVideos
⏩ Jonathan Guyer on The Majority Report Talks Big Tech to Defense Connection
Watch Prospect Managing Editor Jonathan Guyer discuss the consultant-to-Biden-administration pipeline.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Stopping the Race to the Bottom in Trade Policy
Agribusiness giant Bayer/Monsanto claims that Mexico’s proposed restrictions on the active ingredient in its Roundup herbicide violate the country’s trade agreement with the U.S. Will the Biden administration agree?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Silicon Valley Takes the Battlespace
Through an obscure startup named Rebellion Defense, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt attempts to buy his way into the Biden White House.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
This Is Your Brain on Totalitarianism
Northeastern University neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett’s new book probes the mysterious workings of social reality and human reasoning.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Don’t Believe the Social Media Hype
MIT’s Sinan Aral, author of The Hype Machine, considers how social media can have a more constructive impact on American society.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Universal Broadband, Now More Than Ever
Like electricity, broadband is an essential utility that everyone should have access to.
