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How the National Security Council is trying to take over regulation of global data flows on the basis of what’s good for Big Tech

As the genocide in Gaza continues, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking notes.

Three Agriculture Committee senators want Rostin Behnam to drop a new rule that would grant exemptions on swap trades.

Today on TAP: The uses of small magazines in the battle of ideas

The far right has a plan to remake America. They even wrote it down.

A rule allowing ‘de minimis’ items to be shipped from overseas without fees or inspections has facilitated the illegal drug trade.

New York City moves to overcome its public-transit dysfunction and is on the road to stability. Boston, not so much.

Why is the mainstream media peddling the gun lobby’s fake stats on Black gun ownership?

Today on TAP: You owe it to yourself to see the original, not the biopic.

Nick Hanauer and Joan Walsh explain how rich people lie to benefit themselves.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants to mandate anti-speeding technology. It sounds like a no-brainer, but the opportunities for cybersecurity breaches are greater.

New Jersey’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary, likely the end of the road for twice-indicted Robert Menendez, will be shaped by similarly distasteful machine politics.

An updated document from the Office of Management and Budget will make it easier to enact regulations.

Today on TAP: Americans’ economic views are at odds with Americans’ economic behavior. So, whence those views?

A ‘humanitarian pause’ is insufficient to deal with the Gaza crisis.

Understanding the deeper dynamics of predatory capitalism

The company refuses to play ball with its Swedish mechanics union. So the labor movement is shutting it down.

Today on TAP: Hill Republicans want to oust FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, citing sexual harassment elsewhere in the agency. The real issue is Gruenberg’s tough regulation of banks.

The clean-energy transition is faltering because of unexpectedly high interest rates, which Summers’s demands to slow down the economy helped usher in.

Gamurs Group fired the editor in chief of The Escapist. Most of the publication joined him to start something new, a worker cooperative called Second Wind.