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The Trump Factor in the Middle East

5 months ago
Alternately belligerent, self-enriching, militaristic, and realist, Trump’s haphazard path is different from the establishment’s slow road to obliterating Gaza.
Jonathan Guyer

Trump Stomps Workers

5 months ago
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Harold Meyerson

Cracks in the Wall

5 months ago
Today on TAP: Opposition to Trump is growing. That will embolden more opposition.
Robert Kuttner

The Trade Policy We Need

5 months ago
Trump’s on-again, off-again tariffs are incoherent, but that should not discredit targeted tariffs paired with investment as a policy lever.
Lori Wallach

Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety

5 months ago
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
Harold Meyerson

Trump’s Simple Racism

5 months ago
The real targets of the war on DEI include civil rights enforcement, federal outlays that serve Black communities, and Black workers in and out of government.
Robert Kuttner

Where Are the Firebreaks?

5 months ago
Today on TAP: As Trump continues trying to rule by decree, wreck public institutions, and intimidate his opposition, we need to be strategic in restraining him.
Robert Kuttner