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A 2-2 tie on the Federal Trade Commission empowers Republicans to block action into bad actors in the economy—and Senate Republicans are enabling this.

While the Fed and the Treasury dither, this behemoth is getting too complex to contain.

In Maryland, clean-government groups want to create the post of public advocate to advance voters’ causes and call out government sleaze.

Today on TAP: As banks and corporations made fortunes from the pandemic, some workers accidentally got too much unemployment comp. Until we enact an excess profits tax, let them keep it!

Famine grips the country, but ruthless lawyers are smelling profit.

A nation of exceptional bullies and hypocrites

Joe Biden wants to unfreeze Afghanistan’s financial assets to hand them over to 9/11 families while Afghans themselves continue starving.

Today on TAP: It’s scandalous that Congress let it lapse.

Robert Kuttner joins Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti on Breaking Points to discuss the role of China in gumming up supply chains.

Does the ongoing campaign to unionize the Amazon warehouse, where 85 percent of the workers are Black, portend a return to large-scale campaigns in the region?

As billions flow to the Gateway Program’s Hudson River megaproject for new bridges and tunnels, an audit finds that Amtrak has serious work to do—in-house.

The energy transition is already here, but so are midterm-killing gas increases. Climate hawks are winning the war and losing the battle.

Jeopardy! champion Emma Saltzberg’s commitment to Israel-Palestine justice draws the ire of the organized American Jewish establishment.

Today on TAP: It’s not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but their alliance is rotten nonetheless.

A new report highlights increased private equity investment in troubled teen, foster care, and other behavioral services, alongside disturbing reports of abuse and neglect.

‘I had more time than people in there who killed somebody,’ says Willie Roy Goodwin, who received the harsh sentence from the Supreme Court hopeful.

State lawmakers are using temporary budget surpluses to pass permanent tax cuts that will force cutbacks in public services and widen inequality.

Today on TAP: Different stresses for different folks

How policy blunders under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush helped bring about a post-communist Russia hostile to democracy, free markets, and the West

By boycotting committee markups, Republicans could prevent nominees from getting a Senate floor vote. Democrats could change the rules to end this tactic.