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Trump’s Tariff Charade

3 months 1 week ago
Today is billed as ‘Liberation Day,’ as Trump plans to unveil his master tariff program at 4 p.m. The details are still obscure, even to Trump.
Robert Kuttner

How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies

3 months 1 week ago
Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
David Dayen

Erasing Lincoln

3 months 1 week ago
The capital city of Nebraska will have to change its name.
Robert Kuttner

The Last Abundance Agenda

3 months 1 week ago
In the 1980s, Wall Street vowed to make housing more affordable through deregulation of housing finance. The result was the 2008 crisis.
David Dayen

Charging Down

3 months 1 week ago
Trump’s energy policy is hurting red states. Do they care?
Emma Janssen

The Trump Factor in the Middle East

3 months 1 week ago
Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating Gaza.
Jonathan Guyer

Trump Stomps Workers

3 months 1 week ago
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Harold Meyerson

Cracks in the Wall

3 months 1 week ago
Today on TAP: Opposition to Trump is growing. That will embolden more opposition.
Robert Kuttner

The Trade Policy We Need

3 months 2 weeks ago
Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are incoherent, but that should not discredit targeted tariffs paired with investment as a policy lever.
Lori Wallach