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A cash benefit to families as oil prices spike would be more important than how it’s financed.

High prices of homes and rental apartments have very little to do with today’s general inflation, but reflect decades of perverse policies that hurt both renters and aspiring homeowners.

The Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Justice Department could help protect our planet’s future.

Today on TAP: Beijing’s extreme lockdowns are one more reason to unwind U.S. reliance on Chinese supplies.

The D.C. Blob just can’t quit Gulf cash.

By pouring money into fossil fuel infrastructure, the bipartisan law is already showing its tragic inadequacies.

Backed into a corner financially, the private equity–owned physician staffing company could put doctors and patients at risk.

Today on TAP: Some of it is purely opportunistic. We need an excess profits tax and maybe price controls.

But the only way it’s going to happen is if Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agrees to it.

These are nothing more than financial trickery that lets polluters shirk responsibility.

The media (both mass and social) are full of freshly minted authorities on Eastern Europe and the complexities of warfare.

Today on TAP: Its editorialists, apparently, have never heard of Tucker Carlson.

Mohammed bin Salman thinks he can push America around. He needs to be taught a lesson.

The Court is moving toward verifying a doctrine that gives state legislatures near-unilateral authority over election laws.

New York’s prison agency is interpreting key provisions of a landmark parole reform law to keep more people locked up. A lead sponsor of the legislation calls it ‘appalling.’

Today on TAP: With Xi bailing out Putin, the China bill pending before Congress needs to be stripped of special-interest measures that actually help Beijing.

Short term, it’ll be hard to avoid recession. Long term, we missed the moment for a cheap green transition, but may have broken the resistance to a sustainable future.

The Biden administration has promised a decision by May.

Members of Congress would be allowed to continue trading industry funds under the two leading stock trading ban bills in Congress.

Today on TAP: As Bob Kuttner has frequently noted (including today), the myths of capitalist globalization have been shattered.