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The free Direct File program is being tested in 13 states this tax season.

Today on TAP: On the similarities between uniting nihilists and herding cats

U.S. policymakers should listen to Gen. Clausewitz, not Gen. MacArthur.

Many are burned out by attacks on public education. But they struggle to find employers willing to take a chance on someone with only classroom experience.

Don’t mess with the anti-monopoly reformers.

Today on TAP: Biden’s fraught Mideast diplomacy

After Hamas boosted its finances with crypto funding, over 100 members of Congress urged a crackdown on crypto money laundering, including two notoriously pro-crypto representatives.

An obscure company affiliated with a former NIH employee is offered the exclusive license for a government-funded cancer drug.

Today on TAP: And why, after 48 years in the organization, I’m quitting.

The protesters urged the Biden administration to prevent ‘a chain of reactions that would be catastrophic for a lot of people.’

They said they wouldn’t vote for him. Then Sean Hannity came calling.

As long as production is domestic, does it matter whether a company creating jobs for U.S. workers is American, German, or Japanese?

Manchin is proposing a fossil fuel–friendly chair for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Instead, Biden could allow Democrats to regain control of FERC.

Today on TAP: A wider regional conflict or a renewed peace process?

David Klion discusses the historical roots of the conflict and what comes next.

President Biden warned against Israeli forces occupying the Gaza Strip. Was it too late?

California legislators haven’t voted to reject a gubernatorial veto in 43 years. Gov. Newsom has given them plenty of opportunities to reverse that trend.

A report finds that corporate consolidation, an aging workforce, and high costs could keep heat pumps, a key technology of the Inflation Reduction Act, out of reach.

Today on TAP: Netanyahu’s Gaza attacks are rapidly squandering precious global goodwill.

Reproductive rights advocates must counter erroneous claims about abortion to pass a proposed state constitutional amendment.