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On this week’s live show, our staff discuss the Maryland Senate race, AI and disinformation, and the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple.

Today on TAP: And the exemplary effects of his green jobs creation programs in his first term

David Trone, founder of the Total Wine chain, is trying to draw a contrast with his primary opponent, a former prosecutor, by saying he’s been caught up in the system. It was for business violations.

The Environmental Protection Agency rule makes it impossible for Volkswagen to shut down its EV-producing plant in Tennessee, which is being targeted by the UAW.

The organization that claims to champion deficit reduction actually wants to cut your Social Security.

Today on TAP: The vast majority of House GOPniks tell Americans that if they want Social Security, they need to work longer.

The U.S. is in no position to export AI solutions until it gets its own house in order.

UnitedHealth, CVS, and Cigna’s PBMs are using their market share and pull in Washington to drive one of the key levers to manage health care costs—independent pharmacies—out of business.

And why, wonders a new Al Jazeera documentary, did the media go to such lengths to concoct gruesome X-rated versions of an attack that was harrowing enough to begin with?

Today on TAP: Why did the usually public-minded SEC chair breathe new life into Bitcoins?

How the media misses the story of companies seeking profit by keeping traumatized veterans armed and enraged

The National Association of Immigration Judges, whose union was decertified under Trump, is now being silenced by ‘overzealous’ officials in Biden’s Justice Department.

Today on TAP: His break with Bibi made explicit, and official, the inherent rifts between diaspora and Israeli Jews.

The two tech giants are talking about licensing Google’s AI technology for the iPhone. This is precisely the kind of deal that landed Google in court over its search engine.

A bureaucratic paper chase undermines compassion and practical help for the needy, while Wall Street gets whatever it wants. It doesn’t have to be that way.

A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project compiled data on every U.S. plastics plant built, expanded or proposed since 2012, revealing massive growth in Texas.

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Today on TAP: President Biden’s blockage of the proposed purchase of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel is unprecedented and magnificently pro-union.

The famed civil liberties organization is attempting to roll back union power through the courts.

Israel is giving unprecedented credibility to the BDS movement.