The Latest from the Prospect

Why Has the Biden Administration Hired 28 People With Ties to Saudi Arabia and the UAE? Contributor Sarah Lazare reports on the appointees who worked with organizations with ties to the Gulf monarchies. Seems the D.C. Blob just can’t give up that cash.

The Great Housing Inflation as a Long-Term Policy Failure: High prices of homes and rental apartments have very little to do with inflation, says Prospect Co-Editor Robert Kuttner, rather they reflect decades of perverse policies that hurt both renters and aspiring homeowners.

Envision Healthcare Hits the Skids: Contributors Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt say hard times at this physician staffing company, which is owned by one of the most financially successful private equity firms in the world, could put doctors and patients at risk.

Amazon Warehouse Workers Walk Out: On Wednesday morning, workers in three facilities in New York and Maryland staged the first-ever multistate coordinated work stoppage at the Amazon logistics empire. "It’s about pay for everybody," one worker told Prospect Writing Fellow Jarod Facundo.

Time for Another Major Vaccine Push: Covid continues to surge among the unvaccinated around the world. Prospect Managing Editor Ryan Cooper says it's unacceptable that Congressional Democrats are defunding vaccines long before the pandemic is over.