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Calendar logs from the first seven months of her tenure at Commerce show 230 different meetings with CEOs, top executives, or trade groups.

The Union of Southern Service Workers is organizing food service, retail, and health care workers through direct action against low wages and historical racism.

Today on TAP: Some progress in the University of California strike, but nowhere near enough. And by the way, where’s Gavin?

Left Anchor hosts discuss Alaskan elections, protests in Iran, the freight rail labor dispute, and more.

The Institute for Women’s Policy Research has shaped laws nationwide. Now, dozens of former staffers allege it’s in crisis.

The midterms displayed a polarized America. Paradoxically, the thin Republican House majority and some substantive areas of convergence produce opportunities.

Failure to nominate replacements for the Postal Service Board of Governors could give the postmaster general another year of job security.

Today on Tap: There is far too much cheerleading and not nearly enough skeptical reporting.

As Republicans took a radical turn, Democrats learned to talk to normal people again.

As Republicans took a radical turn, Democrats learned to talk to normal people again.

Ignore those six-foot snowbanks—if you want some climate security, Buffalo wants you.

A decade of ultra-cheap credit and weak consumer spending created some of the biggest money-losing companies in history.

Paul Schrade, 1924–2022

Twitter Is Dead, Long Live Twitter

The center-left mindset of favoring quantitative analysis and just-so mathematical solutions is particularly myopic when it comes to fossil fuel pollution.

Today on TAP: Higher interest rates raise housing costs to consumers in multiple ways—the opposite of the Fed’s anti-inflation goals.

The ‘Blockchain Eight’ wrote a bipartisan letter in March attempting to chill the SEC’s information requests to crypto firms. FTX was one of those firms.

Thanks to the Railway Labor Act, a Congressional resolution could force workers back to the railroads under the terms of a contract many of them just rejected.

The meltdown of FTX and its fraudster boss, Sam Bankman-Fried, reveals the potential for reckless risk-taking at the heart of an influential philanthropic movement.

Today on TAP: Our trade with Europe is now outpacing our trade with China.