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Today on TAP: A sweetheart appointment to a key trade position goes to a White House spouse, paired with a hardcore Republican free-trader.

Some health care problems, like Luigi Mangione’s excruciating back pain, are complex and mysterious. But the ultimate villain is pretty straightforward.

76 Place, a controversial NBA arena proposal, has drawn criticism most recently from the transit agency expected to serve it, but team owners have steamrolled the city council into submission.

Evidence shows that phones harm children and education. A growing number of schools are paying attention.

Jason Reitman’s new film about the origins of ‘Saturday Night Live’ forces a consideration of how the show turned into comfort food for its scared, self-satisfied liberal audiences.

Today on TAP: Yesterday, S&M voted to hand the NLRB over to union-busting Republicans.

The Robinson-Patman Act, dormant for decades, is invoked in a case alleging that Southern Glazer’s favored big-box stores over independent rivals.

The FTC chair lost her job on the same day she added another legal victory. The neo-Brandeisian efforts to convince judges to revive antitrust could have staying power.

The party used up about $5 billion on political ads in 2024. There’s a better way.

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s lovely little book on big, urgent matters

How the cold civil war shares characteristics with the hot one

Today on TAP: Why does the supposed advocate for the elderly steer them to the industry’s worst insurer?

A symposium on how housing unaffordability happened and what can be done

The Yes In My Backyard, or YIMBY, movement believes that solving the housing shortage entails removing impediments to adding supply.

Our housing crisis is not going away, and it demands a comprehensive solution with one goal in mind: safe and affordable homes for all.

A decade of depression in construction led to a concentrated, sclerotic industry.

Those caught in the crossfire of corporate landlords and financial engineering need a regulatory agenda to protect them.

Local housing agencies can use revolving funds to fill financing gaps for homes that are cleared to be built but don’t have the capital investment to get it done.

Today on TAP: In an impressive display of fear and greed, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times declares war on journalism.

A text message from a cousin suggests the suspected killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had gone underground for months.