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The senselessness of continual supplemental war requests when the Defense Department already has an insanely large budget

A response to Robert Kuttner on messaging about the U.S.-China relationship and uplifting workers across borders

A response to Tobita Chow’s rejoinder on U.S.-China policy and politics

The FTC commissioner has accused supporters of aggressive antitrust enforcement of being Marxists. But she’s more of the radical on antitrust policy.

The Knowledge Tracker, at the bottom of each article, is meant to help you build on what you know about the ideas, politics and power we write about.

Today on TAP: Why does Joe Biden keep dithering on student debt cancellation?

Pandemic changes exacerbated long-standing tensions between the company and its workforce.

The program rips off both the taxpayer and its own enrollees.

It endorses most of the GOP representatives who voted to overturn the Electoral College results—but not pro-Israel hawk Liz Cheney.

Today on TAP: Oil to end Russia’s stranglehold on Europe? Creating enough semiconductors? Only publicly owned companies can deliver those goods.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.

In a final admission of defeat, the administration is rebranding its ‘Build Back Better World’ foreign-policy initiative, removing references to its failed domestic agenda.

America should continue its limited support for Ukrainian arms.

Today on TAP: Some in the administration are again pushing for tariff cuts. Their approach is bad economics and worse politics.

Kurt Schrader not only got the president’s only endorsement thus far in the 2022 cycle. Local Democrats have accused the DCCC of surreptitiously helping him, too.

A coalition of community-based groups has come together to demand reform of a sector that has had a disproportionately negative impact on communities of color.

After significant cutbacks and tragedies at their private equity–owned hospital, the community of Riverton, Wyoming, tried something different.

Today on TAP: It’s a billionaire’s world, everyone else just lives here.

The greatest threat to democracy from media isn’t disinformation, it’s the paywall.

Conservative positions on abortion and LGBT rights are astoundingly unpopular. It could be better sledding for moderates than condemning their own party.