stLouISTBig Business Loves Government Spending
Today on TAP: When the spending’s on them, as it is in the CHIPS bill, which cleared a major Senate hurdle today
Prospect
The Insidious Attack on the Training of Ob/Gyn Residents
The anti-choice lobby doesn’t want them to learn the full range of reproductive care, including abortion.
Abolish State Senates
What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.
Immigration Judges File Petition to Recertify Union
A three-year odyssey for the formerly unionized employees could be nearing an end.
The Art of the Deal
Pennsylvania state Senator Nikil Saval tells us about his bipartisan legislating.
Looking Over the Horizon
A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades
Looking Over the Horizon
A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades
The Zombie Survival of Crypto
Today on TAP: Will the Treasury rescue a scam sector just as it collapses of its own weight?
It’s Time for Public Pharma
Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care.
Now, Amazon Wants to Be Your Doctor
A proposed merger with One Medical would further Amazon’s efforts to sit in the middle of health care transactions.
How Gig Workers Are Bearing the Brunt of the Global Economic Crisis
Higher prices, an imminent economic downturn, and the stock market turmoil have turned working conditions from bad to worse for on-demand workers.
Shareholders Steer McDonald’s Into Pointless Equity Audit
The burger giant is following the lead of other companies, but the track record of ‘civil rights audits’ is poor.
Going Postal
Today on TAP: Progressives win some small victories. What will it take for them to add up to big victories?
When Trump Finally Told His Mob to Go Home
It was only when it became clear that the January 6th coup wouldn’t succeed that Trump told his insurrectionists to stand down.
David Segal, Populist Coalition Builder, Runs for Congress in Rhode Island
He’s running on a track record of transpartisan success in fighting militarism and corporate power.
The McEntee Moment
For a few years in the mid-1990s, AFSCME President Gerry McEntee (1935-2022) repositioned American labor and restored some of its clout.
Survey Paints Grim Picture of Life in Incarceration
Over half of incarcerated people in the survey have mental health issues and nearly half have substance use disorders.
Altercation: Mainstream Media Figures Detect MSM “Bothsidesism” Bias, Notes It Helps GOP!
Which progressive media has been on to for a very long time, but hey—welcome to the club.
The Good, the Bad, and the Omitted in the Electoral Count Act
Today on TAP: The bill introduced yesterday fixes many problems, but doesn’t really safeguard Americans’ right to vote.
Reconciliation Bill Lacks Language Addressing Insulin
How did such a key provision get axed?