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Today on TAP: The half-point rate hike will make little difference in dealing with the causes and cures of rising prices.

The leaked Court decision is the logical consequence of our systemic bias against majorities.

Henry Cuellar was the only Democrat to oppose codifying Roe v. Wade. He’s getting leadership support in his runoff election against a progressive pro-choice challenger.

Today on TAP: What to say after you find out that the Supreme Court is going to overturn Roe v. Wade

A Democratic establishment victory in a House race last year has emboldened big money to upend this primary cycle.

Baseball’s anomalous antitrust exemption is overdue for repeal.

The businesses competing with the big oil drillers are also the dirtiest operators around.

Today on TAP: An Ohio Senate race between J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan would test the appeal of cultural grievances versus economic ones.

Podcaster, academic, and author Trevor Strunk discusses his book on the gaming industry.

The senselessness of continual supplemental war requests when the Defense Department already has an insanely large budget

A response to Robert Kuttner on messaging about the U.S.-China relationship and uplifting workers across borders

A response to Tobita Chow’s rejoinder on U.S.-China policy and politics

The FTC commissioner has accused supporters of aggressive antitrust enforcement of being Marxists. But she’s more of the radical on antitrust policy.

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Today on TAP: Why does Joe Biden keep dithering on student debt cancellation?

Pandemic changes exacerbated long-standing tensions between the company and its workforce.

The program rips off both the taxpayer and its own enrollees.

It endorses most of the GOP representatives who voted to overturn the Electoral College results—but not pro-Israel hawk Liz Cheney.

Today on TAP: Oil to end Russia’s stranglehold on Europe? Creating enough semiconductors? Only publicly owned companies can deliver those goods.

A new bill tries to claw back authority given to the executive branch on debt cancellation.