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A variety of legislative and regulatory actions would make it hard for private equity to stay in business. That should be the goal.

Today on TAP: Managing today’s economic crosscurrents is far from easy. The Fed is making things worse. So is Biden’s happy talk.

Workers (and their families) are stressed by the long hours they have to put in. It’s past time to cut those hours.

Excessive reverence for unwritten Senate rules has dashed the campaign to remake the bench.

Our current model of collective bargaining leaves millions of workers out in the cold. Sectoral bargaining could change all that—and, just maybe, rebuild our shrunken middle class.

New federal rulemaking on interoperability and public investment has opened Tesla’s Supercharger network to non-Tesla users.

Requiring every citizen to vote would make our elections more inclusive and our democracy more legitimate.

Today on TAP: When the spending’s on them, as it is in the CHIPS bill, which cleared a major Senate hurdle today

The anti-choice lobby doesn’t want them to learn the full range of reproductive care, including abortion.

What the country needs is 50 majority-rule unicameral state legislatures.

A three-year odyssey for the formerly unionized employees could be nearing an end.

Pennsylvania state Senator Nikil Saval tells us about his bipartisan legislating.

A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades

A series about ideas that can sprout into progress in the coming decades

Today on TAP: Will the Treasury rescue a scam sector just as it collapses of its own weight?

Medicare for All would take the profit motive out of insurance; public manufacturing of prescription drugs would take it out of providing care.

A proposed merger with One Medical would further Amazon’s efforts to sit in the middle of health care transactions.

Higher prices, an imminent economic downturn, and the stock market turmoil have turned working conditions from bad to worse for on-demand workers.

The burger giant is following the lead of other companies, but the track record of ‘civil rights audits’ is poor.

Today on TAP: Progressives win some small victories. What will it take for them to add up to big victories?