stLouISTHow Private-Sector Care Can Harm Veterans
One father’s wake-up call is illustrative as the VA attempts to outsource more care.
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Building Our New Electric Fleet
Today on TAP: In a signal victory last week, an activist group prevailed on a major bus manufacturer to hire its workers from local, historically disadvantaged communities.
How Rich People Stole Identity Politics
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò charts a course between cynical corporate liberalism and right-wing anti-wokeness.
After Hyper-Globalization
What should the next trading system be? Can we restore the capacity of the U.S. to produce—and of all nations to regulate capitalism?
Clock Ticking on Big Tech Accountability Bills
The industry, and a couple of nervous Democrats, want to keep the legislation forever off the Senate calendar. Chuck Schumer is the key decision-maker.
After Ukraine, Voters Want Climate Solutions
New polling shows a bolstered desire for a rapid transition to green energy.
Biden’s Main Legislative Accomplishment Is in One Man’s Hands
Mitch Landrieu is overseeing the bipartisan infrastructure law. His record does not inspire confidence in how that might be handled.
Three More Senators Violated the STOCK Act
At least two more Democrats and a Republican senator failed to report stock transactions last year as a ban on congressional stock trading flounders in a Senate working group.
A Formula for Public Ownership
Today on TAP: What the Similac debacle teaches about the consequences of arrogant corporate concentration
Why Uvalde Cops Were Too Cowardly to Charge a Mass Shooter
American police are taught first and foremost to fear for their own lives.
Heidi Heitkamp Lobbies Against a Democratic FCC
The former Democratic senator is running misleading ads claiming that FCC nominee Gigi Sohn would be bad for rural America.
The Giant Pandemic Pool of Money
A new book details the penny-ante crooks extracting federal cash during COVID, and the disastrous budget decisions that gave them the opportunity.
Altercation: The Best (Progressive) Democrat You Probably Never Heard Of
Michael Kazin on Robert Wagner
How the Senate—Once, Long Ago—Banned Assault Weapons
Today on TAP: Courage and common sense were necessary but not sufficient. Here’s how it passed.
A System That Allows Children to Be Killed
At the root of the Uvalde massacre is a wheezing politics and its meager facsimiles of solutions.
Of Massacres, ATF Directors, and Ukrainian Condolences
The confirmation of Steve Dettelbach is not assured.
The Senate Has Forfeited Its Right to Exist
Not even 19 butchered children can break through its idiotic traditions.
Republicans on the Wrong Side of Public Outrage
Today on TAP: Their opposition to gun laws and assault on women’s health should be center-stage issues.
Will Progressives in Swing Districts Get the Cuellar Treatment From Democratic Leadership?
In recent House primaries, Nancy Pelosi saved Henry Cuellar but threw Kurt Schrader to the wolves. Now what?
Biden’s Successor to TPP Is a Boon for Big Tech
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework seeks to prohibit forcing tech companies to share source code or store data locally.