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Fanatics, the self-described Amazon of sports, has used long-term exclusive deals to monopolize apparel and memorabilia markets, and make its products unavoidable.

Executive total compensation surged nearly 13% in 2023, outpacing both inflation and worker pay increases.

Billionaire chief of staff Jeffrey Zients epitomizes a campaign that has been less than forceful about the rally of capital to Donald Trump’s side.

An agency report detailed how fintech ‘neobanks’ could fall into the regulatory cracks. Nobody managed to patch them up, and now depositors can’t retrieve their own money.

How Josh Marshall has sustained Talking Points Memo amid the wreckage of modern journalism

Why centrist opinion columnists have no one to blame but themselves for public misconceptions about the economy

Today on TAP: It’s not just autoworkers who are unionizing in the non-union South. In Virginia, schoolteachers are successfully organizing, too.

RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.

How the Treasury Department resists Biden priorities

Four former executive directors of the organization that elects House Democrats work for firms that are being paid to defeat House Democrats in primary races.

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: The successor to the ousted chair, Martin Gruenberg, is likely to be an even tougher regulator.

How do the Dems stack up compared to U.K. Labour, the German Social Democrats, and the multiparty French left?

The megalomaniac CEO extracted $48 billion from his shareholders. But the company’s future does not look good.

We still need federal intervention to drag some jurisdictions out of Jim Crow–era policing.

David Walsh explains how the conservative movement came to to be.

Nothing you see on the shelves is there by accident.

Today on TAP: A surprising result of President Macron’s impulsive decision to call a snap election

The government has a variety of strategies to protect the public from price-gouging and information advantages over the consumer.

The Federal Trade Commission chair plays a key role in preventing exploitative pricing schemes from taking root.