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Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.

Exhibit A is long-depressed upstate New York.

Today’s X-Date: GOP members insist they’re worried about the national debt. It ain’t true.

Bill Fletcher argues that the American left should support efforts to fend off Russian aggression.

Today on TAP: Even if we can avert ill-advised budget concessions as part of a debt ceiling deal, it will take more radical policies to improve the life prospects of workaday Americans.

Congress’s power to make contracts does not come with the power to renege on them.

Jenny Yang and Rotimi Adeoye join to discuss the Trump conviction, Supreme Court corruption, and more.

On today’s X-Date: The White House and its allies are acting like they must avoid a legal battle over the debt ceiling. Too late.

Particularly (but not only) in Texas, Republican state legislatures’ response to liberal cities is to strip them of all power.

Progressives in the North Star State have racked up a remarkable set of victories.

Today on TAP: The senator exposes the corrupt connection between the biggest banks and their docile regulators.

Transphobes cite Finland as proof that trans activists have gone too far. It isn’t true.

Plaintiffs claiming that the debt ceiling is unconstitutional didn’t file a motion for immediate relief. Therefore, the case has sat dormant.

The company is giving raises, but only to workers who haven’t unionized. That’s likely illegal, but the NLRB has yet to stop it.

The new film charts the conflict between making a good product and pleasing investors.

Today on TAP: California’s senior senator is doing her country, her party, and herself no favors by clinging to office.

A litany of red flags in Michael Delaney’s record has delayed his judicial confirmation for months. But few will speak out.

Voting in state legislative primary races is under way, and North Carolina’s new abortion restrictions will reverberate across the electorate.

On today’s X-Date, how the relationship between Punchbowl News and Kevin McCarthy is driving a bad resolution to the debt ceiling crisis

Aaron Regunberg has a shot to win a congressional special election in Rhode Island this fall, but a left-wing group has blasted him for not being progressive enough.