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Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at $11 a pop.

Gov. Janet Mills faces a bold Democratic primary challenger while Susan Collins displays her preternatural calm.

Kaiser has doubled down on hedge funds, outside staffing firms, and high executive compensation as workers lag behind.

On our live show, senior editor Ryan Cooper and writing fellow James Baratta discuss the week in news.

Today on TAP: No university has agreed to his latest extortion plan. And his vindictive partisan shutdown of the NY-NJ Gateway tunnel project could be a life preserver for Democrat Mikie Sherrill in the close New Jersey governor’s race.

The New York state assemblymember repeatedly returned to his platform of making the city affordable for working people, while Andrew Cuomo flailed around in pancake makeup.

With unionization dropping under Trump, experts say “premajority” campaigns can help workers score wins.

The president is doing almost exactly what Charles I did to touch off the English Civil War.

The government shutdown is now in its third week with no end in sight. Workers are struggling to cope.

Today on TAP: They’re going after the civil rights laws of the 1960s just as white Southern racists went after the civil rights laws of the 1860s.

A case heard Wednesday will go a long way to determining whether Republicans can gerrymander their way to a near-permanent House majority.

Elon Musk and the Trump administration have gutted the Institute of Education Science.

Collapsing soybean exports reveal an agricultural sector rife with longstanding problems.

Will the Supreme Court restrain an unconstitutional power grab?

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

The challenges that these military members face merit more focused attention. Instead, vital services like mental health care face devastating cuts.

It’s America’s worst foreign policy disaster since the invasion of Iraq.

Today on TAP: His platform, his movement, and his super-rich enemies all fit the historic pattern of New York’s politics.

China holds a virtual monopoly over a product needed to produce the only thing holding up our economy right now. And it’s preparing to use that leverage.

Compared to Gaza, Ukraine is much tougher. And that's saying a lot.