stLouISTA Safety Net for Unemployed Workers
The job market is strong. Now is the perfect time to fix the unemployment system.
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Death Panel Algorithm
Three executives from an AI ploy to deny health care to seniors are buying a troubled mega-practice from the bankrupt Steward Health. What could go wrong?
On the Biden-Pelosi Rift
Today on TAP: The Speaker emerita demonstrated yet again why we always need smart and able pols.
Democrats Complete the Big Crypto Reset
Chuck Schumer fully embraced crypto at an industry fundraiser for Harris, while his Senate candidates get showered with millions of dollars in crypto PAC donations.
Another Study Shows Bail Reform Doesn’t Lead to Crime Surge
There’s even more data to refute the fearmongering.
Josh Shapiro Mans the Electoral Fort in Pennsylvania
Can the former vice-presidential contender hold off Republican attempts to undermine voting in the Keystone State?
Minnesota Workers Strike Down Shady Provision That Restricts Their Freedom of Employment
The state banned so-called ‘restrictive covenants’ that make contracted labor agreements harder to break.
Arizona Restaurants Want to Cut Their Servers’ Wages
Today on TAP: As both presidential candidates endorse eliminating taxes on tips, in Arizona businesses look to reduce the subminimum wage for those same tipped workers.
Unlearning Zionism
Israel is not automatically good.
Collapsing Mortgage Securities. Broken Processes. No Accountability. Sound Familiar?
Faulty credit ratings were a cause of the 2008 crisis. One whistleblower complaint argues that the same dynamic is happening again.
Debating Public Education in North Carolina
The election for superintendent of public instruction features a mainstream educator against a homeschooler.
The Neighborliness Option
Chicago officials have been terrified that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would inundate the DNC with migrant buses. But the people of Chicago may have already called Abbott’s bluff.
Dear Hackers: Please Send Me the Trump Campaign Emails
Today on TAP: I promise to treat them with the utmost in journalistic integrity.
Let Them Eat Invoices
Steward grifter Ralph de la Torre, supposedly under criminal investigation on two continents, is now telecommuting from Versailles.
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Revolving Door
Bringing tech and finance executives into government because they are ‘the country’s smartest and hardest-working people’ is faintly ridiculous.
Stopping Excessive Market Power Before It Grows Into Monopoly
The Robinson-Patman Act is mischaracterized as punishing low prices. It’s actually about preventing powerful monopolies that raise prices in the future.
The Week in Weird
Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World
Kamala Harris’s Israel Quandary
Today on TAP: She needs to signal a new policy. But with Biden sticking to the current one, that will be far from easy.
A Vice-Presidential Nominee With a Worker-First Agenda
Tim Walz is seen as a champion for workers. But how have they actually done under his leadership? Pretty well.
There Are Some Damned Good Reasons Why Joe Biden Moved to the Left
Contra Jon Chait, Biden’s economic progressivism has been both historic and (had he only been able to explain it) good politics.