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The zombie bank is now in a staring match with potential purchasers and regulators. Ultimately, a failure of oversight caused this mess.

Conditions have improved from the days of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. But not by nearly enough.

Finally getting Netflix to air her special on her terms, the actress and comedian has become a beacon for people, like her, who’ve had to struggle against social norms.

The American Clean Power Association has endorsed fossil fuel initiatives and their allies in Washington.

Today on TAP: Negotiating with the GOP would be a disaster, but not negotiating has political perils, too. Which leaves—what?

A neofascist who opposes corporate globalism is still a neofascist—and a threat to democracy.

The GOP answer to anger about its abortion, climate, and gun control crusades is to double down.

Today on TAP: Who bought all that stock, as the retailer was on the route to bankruptcy?

Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants.

The justices are sensitive to political pressure. Senate Democrats can impose that pressure through investigation.

Republicans have been blasting right-wing propaganda at the judiciary for 50 years.

Tucker Carlson was fired from his Fox News job. Nobody has deserved it more.

Today on TAP: His announcement of candidacy highlights the Republicans’ campaign against personal freedom.

Goodbye for now to Tucker Carlson, who punctured the lazy pieties of the media class.

At a time when Democrats are savaging House Republicans for expanding work requirements in Medicaid and SNAP, their signature child care bill also contains them.

Here is a vital sector of the economy crying out for socialized production and distribution.

IntraFi, a private equity–owned company that offers the wealthy a work-around to the $250,000 limit on FDIC insurance, sees an existential threat in universal deposit guarantees.

Today on TAP: Biden’s latest order is well-intentioned, but the caring economy needs a lot more money.

Despite the opposition of unions, Nancy Pelosi, and the FCC, DNC honcho Cedric Richmond backs a hedge fund takeover of 60 TV stations.

Tens of thousands of conservatives died because they believed anti-vaccine lies. Now the GOP is bringing back measles and polio.