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Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.

Today on TAP: Coloradans and Nevadans will decide this fall on switching to a form of voting that will chiefly benefit gazillionaire candidates.

Five years after the Business Roundtable ‘redefined’ the purpose of the corporation, has anything changed?

As political scientist Theda Skocpol warns, it’s wishful to imagine that Trumpism will fade away even after Trump goes.

Republicans in tough re-election races have not come up with good responses for why they oppose a federal right to fertilization treatments.

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The e-commerce giant has been ruled a joint employer with its delivery service providers, and now workers are seeking to organize with the Teamsters.

Today on TAP: Are we so inured to the premise that nothing can be done about mass ownership of military weapons that gun control has vanished from discourse and debate?

Shein and Temu make hundreds of millions of shipments using a de minimis exemption from tariffs and inspections. That could be coming to an end.

U.S. Steel’s David Burritt threatens to flatten Pittsburgh. Where’s the (Democratic) indignation?

A fiery Senate committee hearing promised accountability for hospital looter Ralph de la Torre, but new raids are already under way at the hospitals and the broader health care system.

David Dayen and Ryan Cooper discuss this week’s debate.

Today on TAP: A different course on the Middle East is urgently needed, and harder than you might think.

Contrary to the discussion at the presidential level, small businesses are seeking access to credit and a level playing field for their enterprises.

The company was a bad student loan servicer; so are its successors. The problem is that private servicers can’t make a profit without harming borrowers.

Reno’s building trades unions are mobilizing their members to support the Democratic nominee.

Today on TAP: $6,000 for newborns and universal affordable child care are great—but don’t speak to many young men.

His model leader is a tin-pot autocrat running a small corrupt country.

Despite continued failures in the industry, the Fed decided to take orders from bank CEOs.

Amendment 4 needs 60 percent support to pass. Organizers are fanning out across the state to get the votes.