What Super Tuesday Portends
Today on TAP: Biden has opportunities to make real gains. Will he maximize them?
View ArticleA Capital Crime
Today on TAP: Fed Chair Jerome Powell is sabotaging a rule requiring stronger capital standards for banks—that he pretended to support.
View ArticleBiden, Bibi, and the Elusive Cease-Fire
Today on TAP: There will be no deal in time for the beginning of Ramadan tonight, and Netanyahu’s defiance keeps bleeding both Gaza and Biden’s re-election chances.
View ArticleWTO, RIP
Today on TAP: The annual World Trade Organization meeting came to an ignominious end last week with no ‘progress’ on major issues. That is a form of progress.
View ArticleThe Clock Is Tik-Toking for Tech
Today on TAP: Forcing divestment of Chinese ownership of TikTok is no substitute for comprehensive data privacy regulation. It’s a first step.
View ArticleMan of Steel
Today on TAP: President Biden’s blockage of the proposed purchase of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel is unprecedented and magnificently pro-union.
View ArticleHow the Welfare State Fails the Poor
A bureaucratic paper chase undermines compassion and practical help for the needy, while Wall Street gets whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to be that way.
View ArticleCrypto’s New Pal, Gary Gensler
Today on TAP: Why did the usually public-minded SEC chair breathe new life into Bitcoins?
View ArticleThe Promise of Biden’s Second Term
Today on TAP: And the exemplary effects of his green jobs creation programs in his first term
View ArticleRepublican Disarray
Today on TAP: How fractured are the Republicans in Congress? Let us count the ways.
View ArticleThe Connection Between Jobs and Housing
The good news/bad news story in the Economic Report of the President
View ArticleThe Corrupt Trifecta of Yass, Trump, and Netanyahu
Today on TAP: Yass’s payoffs to Trump are part of his efforts to destroy democracy in the U.S. and Israel, while helping China.
View ArticleBridge to the Bottom: Global Deregulation of Shipping
Today on TAP: The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge is directly tied to the use of globalization to undermine national standards of safety and quality.
View ArticleGeorgia’s Latest Attack on the Right to Vote
Today on TAP: The Republican legislature has a clumsy new effort to disqualify registered voters.
View ArticleHow Republicans Screw Workers
Efforts by Obama and Biden to enforce labor laws have been systematically undermined by right-wing courts and legislators. This should be a prime election theme.
View ArticleThe Trade War Within the U.S. Government
Today on TAP: Why does the National Security Council keep trying to wrest control of trade policy to help Big Tech?
View ArticleLiberals Need to Be Radicals
The agenda for Biden’s next term must go deeper to restore the American dream.
View ArticleDEI and Multiracial Coalition
Today on TAP: Does redoubled commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion among the already liberal address the deeper problem of systemic racism? Does it backfire politically?
View ArticleIf Not Now, When?
Has Biden’s pressure finally ended Israel’s war on Gaza’s civilians? Or is the U.S. allowing Bibi one more head fake?
View ArticleThe U.S.-Japan Summit and the Nippon Steel Deal
Will the Japanese enlist Biden to let the Nippon acquisition of U.S. Steel proceed?
View ArticleHow the Fed Keeps Getting Inflation Wrong
Today on TAP: More than 400 economists work for the Federal Reserve Board. Far too many are intimidated by the echo chamber of bad economics created by Chair Jay Powell.
View ArticleNetanyahu Outplays Biden Yet Again
Today on TAP: Changing the subject from Gaza to Iran with a cynical provocation
View ArticleSchumer Carries Water for Crypto
When it comes to backdoor schemes to help the financial industry, the frequently progressive Senate majority leader is still the senator from Wall Street.
View ArticleSteel in His Spine
Today on TAP: Biden’s latest actions on behalf of a domestic steel and shipbuilding industry
View ArticleBiden’s Gaza Quagmire: Worse Than Vietnam
Today on TAP: There’s still time for the U.S. to reverse course on Israel policy—but barely. Will Biden do it?
View ArticleSelf-Destructive College Presidents
Today on TAP: They are making a fraught situation worse by letting the far right define antisemitism and the necessary campus responses.
View ArticleWhat $26 Billion Buys
Today on TAP: Netanyahu ignores Biden’s warnings and plans an imminent operation in Rafah.
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