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If Democrats hang tough, Republican attempts to sabotage the bipartisan immigration bill may yet backfire on the far right.

Paul Krugman’s (and many Democrats’) beliefs about the economy and crime miss the reality that Americans still experience.

The latest challenge to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 concerns who is allowed to sue to enforce it.

Between its stalled counteroffensive and divisions in the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is stuck in a doom loop.

Today on TAP: That would do the whole world a giant service—including Israel. Biden’s own re-election could depend on it.

Workers can win union elections, but companies pull out all the stops to prevent them from obtaining a first contract.

He needs to highlight his positions against the Republicans’. And not give away too much in interim deals.

Why the attack on UNRWA looks a lot like collective punishment

Today on TAP: In Alabama and Tennessee, workers are signing up with the union at VW, Hyundai, and Mercedes.

That depends on whether organizing and unity are a match for two incumbents in the pocket of business and one embittered ex-governor.

The ballot measure process died three years ago, but some Republicans working on a new, more restrictive framework hope that voters won’t notice.

Koch Industries is buying an Iowa fertilizer plant built with taxpayer dollars. Will federal authorities block the deal?

Today on TAP: Does the Fed deserve credit for the strong economy? Will our central bankers screw it up by waiting too long to cut rates?

The constitutional grant of a second chance for the destitute has become an enabler of reverse wealth redistribution. One wild case in Houston tells the story.

Biden’s foreign-policy team ended the war in Afghanistan, and is now caught in a trap of its own making.

Why is there so little art depicting the moment we’re in?

Today on TAP: When it comes to making the rich fund affordable child care and long-term Social Security, Bernie Sanders has a suggestion.

Republican state lawmakers are enthusiastic practitioners of direct-democracy backsliding. Can voters hold them off?

It’s understandable that Wall Street wants weak rules. Why are so many community groups serving as the banks’ echo chamber?