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There are gaping holes in what the law requires employers to reveal about their campaigns to keep their workers from unionizing.

Today on TAP: Macron’s been a disaster, but far worse disasters await should he lose.

Democrats in tough re-election fights have joined Republicans in warning against the end of Title 42 expulsions at the southern border.

Larry Summers is not only a self-promoter who is often wrong on his economics. He is disdainful of who suffers if his recommendations are taken seriously.

Government officials should not be able to cash out working for firms directly affected by their own actions in office.

Today on TAP: Rising ticket prices are another facet of inflation that has nothing to do with overheated general demand, and everything to do with industry price-gouging.

Billionaire oligarchs rely on government protections and benefits more than anyone on Earth.

Unions must create a massive, dedicated project to assist workers like those at the Staten Island Amazon warehouse.

As an example of the promise of long-term investment in child care and early learning, it was wildly successful. But the money runs out soon.

Republicans’ culture-war legislation is both wedge-issue politics and a subjugation of women and minorities.

This Tennessee representative married a college undergraduate when he was 45.

Today on TAP: Comparing the Senate’s decorous treatment of Thurgood Marshall with the Republican inquisition of Ketanji Brown Jackson

Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.

A deeply reported history of the past four decades of handing public services over to private companies provides a stunning account of how not to govern.

Parting Shot in our April 2022 issue

Eric Boehlert was the model media critic—and much, much more.

Today on TAP: The NLRB’s general counsel asks the Board to ban ‘captive audience’ meetings, in which workers are compelled to hear employers’ anti-union rants.

It turns out voters hate it when you snatch away hundreds of dollars a month. Who knew?

The rot at the core of the Senate turns Supreme Court confirmation hearings into gratuitous distractions—or frequently, worse.

The NLRB can—as originally intended—quickly facilitate worker organization. But workers need to act fast before the Supreme Court cancels their efforts.