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There’s another critical shortage of salt and water in a bag. Hurricane Helene is only the surface-level cause; it’s really about America refusing to learn the lessons of monopoly fragility.

Here’s what policymakers should do.

After another major hurricane slams Florida, voting is not on the average voter’s radar.

Today on TAP: The imperative of Trump’s price-gouging (selling $3 Bibles for $59.99) meets the Holy Word.

Red America is imposing its vision on the rest of the country through intimidation, and in some cases even more.

Former FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate talks about the agency’s budget and what the agency does and doesn’t do.

Today on TAP: It’s good that Kamala Harris is doing more one-on-one interviews, because she’s getting a lot better at it. Still, she occasionally misses an opportunity.

Israel is getting what it wants.

Some of the same figures who attacked Kamala Harris for her federal proposal to ban price-gouging in groceries remain steadfast after widespread reports in the Southeast.

That will put Trump and Vance in the White House.

The Israeli war and occupation is not like South African apartheid. It is much worse.

How pro-choice advocates in two cities moved to take on anti-abortion lawmakers

Trump has been blanketing Pennsylvania with dubious claims that Harris would cut Social Security and Medicare.

Is the best way to understand the MAGA movement to binge-watch docuseries about charismatic leaders sending their acolytes to ruin? Tune in and find out.

Today on TAP: The decimation of the labor movement makes that a very uphill climb.

The state is a national incubator for bad ideas, which it then seeks to project across the nation.

The union’s organizing summit in North Carolina was part of its $200 million investment to mobilize working people to vote ahead of the 2024 election.

In Wisconsin, where many nursing homes are county-owned and locally prized, an emblematic privatization battle illustrates the latent progressivism of rural people.

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: Despite a lot of BS from U.S. Steel execs’ campaign about lost US jobs, Kamala Harris will act to block the Nippon takeover of USS—which will actually preserve jobs.