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Section 2 of the 14th Amendment was designed to strip congressional districts from states that disenfranchise voters. It’s never been implemented.

Epic Games allegedly exposed children to predators and ripped off its customers.

Today on TAP: The worsening income distribution has reduced payroll tax receipts. Progressives need compelling reforms to defend and strengthen our most popular program.

The California representative has some ideas for how to broaden the appeal of progressive policy.

A new EU border tax on carbon could hurt low-income industrializing countries, but ‘green protectionism’ is here to stay.

Initial pilots are very promising, but more work needs to be done.

Today on TAP: About America’s dysfunctional drug system

The action is over selective closures of union stores, as well as retaliatory behavior against unionized employees.

The airplane maker is scrambling to get a deadline for improving cockpit safety systems on all planes pushed back.

As mainstream publications cut jobs, heavily subsidized right-wing agitprop is filling the gap.

Today on TAP: University of California managers divide (and—not clear yet if they’ll—conquer), while General Motors and Microsoft indulge a modicum of worker power.

David Dayen discusses his reporting on the Salton Sea.

The nomination of Gigi Sohn for the fifth commissioner’s slot has languished for over a year. Numerous policies affecting telecom interests are at stake.

Management authorized $150 million for a stock buyback this year but resists the union’s wage proposal, which would yearly come to $15 million more than the paper wants to pay.

The Kansas City transit system eliminated fares and fare evasion. The ensuing challenge? Homeless ‘loop riders.’

Today on TAP: Powell’s astonishingly ignorant response to easing inflation pressures

The rapid arrest of Sam Bankman-Fried offers a small bit of hope that we’ve turned the page on an era of no accountability.

Recent data shows a strong possibility that inflation will come down on its own.

It took about half a decade for crypto magnates to recreate all the problems that blew up Wall Street in 2008.

1,350 union workers are losing their jobs at an Illinois plant, an early signal about the staying power of green manufacturing jobs in the United States.