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Private Equity Power Play in Minnesota

9 months 4 weeks ago
BlackRock-owned Global Infrastructure Partners and a Canadian pension giant want to buy a Minnesota-based utility. Gov. Tim Walz’s agencies have been in on pushing the deal.
James Baratta

Left, Right, and Free Speech

10 months ago
With the martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, the right pretends to champion free speech while the left supposedly promotes censorship. It’s a classic Big Lie.
Robert Kuttner

Supermarket Shaping

10 months ago
Critics say Zohran Mamdani’s public grocery store proposal will never work. But Mamdani’s idea isn’t the problem—market consolidation is.
Emma Janssen

The Art of the Budget Deal

10 months ago
Today on TAP: With a government shutdown looming on Wednesday, will Trump screw Democrats, Republicans, the public, or himself?
Robert Kuttner

AI’s $600 Billion Blind Spot

10 months ago
A new report offers a legislative road map for creating a competitive and secure cloud computing market, without forcing policymakers to reinvent the wheel.
James Baratta

H-1B Disruption

10 months ago
Today on TAP: It’s the right target, but a $100,000 visa fee is a characteristically bizarre Trumpian remedy.
Robert Kuttner