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Paul Schrade, 1924–2022

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The center-left mindset of favoring quantitative analysis and just-so mathematical solutions is particularly myopic when it comes to fossil fuel pollution.

Today on TAP: Higher interest rates raise housing costs to consumers in multiple ways—the opposite of the Fed’s anti-inflation goals.

The ‘Blockchain Eight’ wrote a bipartisan letter in March attempting to chill the SEC’s information requests to crypto firms. FTX was one of those firms.

Thanks to the Railway Labor Act, a Congressional resolution could force workers back to the railroads under the terms of a contract many of them just rejected.

The meltdown of FTX and its fraudster boss, Sam Bankman-Fried, reveals the potential for reckless risk-taking at the heart of an influential philanthropic movement.

Today on TAP: Our trade with Europe is now outpacing our trade with China.

The UAW’s campus organizing record is far better than its auto factory record—and it can back up its UC members with a sizable strike fund.

A visit to a hospital in Europe is an eye-opener to the many ways monopolized U.S. hospitals pad their profits with unnecessary costs.

While Title 42, which was used to expel over one million migrants, is now over, the next phase of immigration policy is uncertain.

The 80-year-olds are retiring—with one notable exception.

The bill is a sensible response to a deep division among Americans about a fraught moral issue.

Outside of investigations, the GOP will try to use leverage from must-pass bills to force through ideological priorities.

One person should not control nation-sized pots of resources.

Historian Chad Pearson talks about the violent enforcers of business rule before World War I.

Today on TAP: Misleading reports on the rising cost of dinner are feeding the Fed’s appetite for more perverse rate hikes.

Workers accuse the company of refusing to bargain in good faith for a union contract.

The Republican plan to win the midterms on racist crime messaging failed miserably.

The ticketing monopoly may have messed with the wrong group of millions of rabid fans.