stLouISTHomeowners Want Housing Prices to Go Up
This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable-housing policy.
Prospect
Trump Allies Charged Yet Again Over ‘Fake Elector’ Scheme
The public evidence and mounting legal action tell a pretty clear story.
Elon Musk Wants $50 Billion or He’ll Walk
Today on TAP: Unless Tesla shareholders grant him this tidy bonus, he’s threatened to take his marbles elsewhere.
Senators Allege That Amazon Lied to Them About Delivery Drivers
In a bipartisan letter, the senators say that Amazon was misleading about whether it controls aspects of work at its third-party transportation partners.
Loaded Up With Junk
Extra profits are the only explanation for many fees businesses charge.
The Republican Party Is Coming for Birth Control
The insistence from GOP elites that they mean to do no such thing is a lie.
Why Is NIH Perpetuating Long COVID Denial?
Documents obtained by The Sick Times reveal the bastion of the medical establishment squandered a billion dollars on a long COVID study that seems suspiciously designed to fail.
Time for the Fed to Meet the FTC
Today on TAP: The real source of too many price hikes is concentrated market power, not macroeconomic overheating.
Corporate Crime Scene
An epidemic of crime and mismanagement has ruined things from drinking water to airplanes.
Three Algorithms in a Room
A growing number of industries are using software to fix prices. Law enforcers are beginning to fight back.
The Republican Id
Rather than visiting red-state diners, reporters ought to journey to the venerable conservative message board where the talk after the Trump verdict was nihilistic and bloody.
Jim DeMint Wants to Destroy Democracy
If the American people don’t want tax cuts and deregulation, too bad.
Biden Puts a Cap on the Number of Border Crossings
Today on TAP: Which he hopes will increase the number of voters who will settle for him rather than reinstall Trump.
One Person One Price
Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay.
Britain’s Turn to Labour
After the upcoming election, will we see a welcome shift to progressive rebuilding—or more austerity and neoliberalism?
The Flags on His Lawn Show Justice Alito’s True Colors
There’s no real mystery here. He is a fervent Christian nationalist and Trump supporter.
Talking Points
Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World
Biden to Bibi: Kick Me Again
Today on TAP: Bibi to Biden: Happy to oblige, please send more bombs.
End of the Line for the New Jersey Machine?
A primary election for Rep. Rob Menendez Jr., son of the indicted senator, will test the power of party bosses in the Garden State.
The Age of Recoupment
How power, technology, and opportunity have come together to gouge consumers