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Agri Stats lets meat processors coordinate their pricing. The Justice Department finally decided to go after what it calls collusion.

A change to public records laws, which takes effect today, allows legislators full discretion to retain, sell, or destroy their own documents.

Will they survive an intense and preposterous lobbying campaign by the U.S. platform giants to brand them as discriminatory against American companies?

Today on TAP: Should House Democrats save McCarthy’s Speakership?

Hollywood screenwriters won their strike, while the UAW strike is ramping up. What’s next?

Gubernatorial elections this fall in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana may clarify where Democrats can, and can’t, run on abortion.

Adjusting wages to the rising costs of living, as the UAW is demanding, is necessary, but the gap between investment income and wages will still keep rising.

Revolving Door Project research reveals that right-wing elites in the Horatio Alger Association stand to benefit from a lawsuit attempting to destroy the CFPB. The group has close ties to Clarence Thomas.

Today on TAP: Most of the sources of inflation are either the result of the Fed’s own policy, or have nothing to do with domestic demand, such as the rising price of oil.

The Guild’s agreement attempts to restore the elements of the traditional system that made entertainment writing sustainable. It mostly succeeds, with one caveat.

One anti-monopoly group contends that withholding basic financial information violates federal securities laws.

The leaves may change but the bullsh*t remains the same.

Today on TAP: Shouting over one another, the Republican presidential candidates were unintelligible last night, and worse when actually audible.

The Old Dominion’s neck-and-neck legislative elections have huge implications for abortion rights, public education, gun safety, and Glenn Youngkin’s political future.

How a culture of gross sexism in the airlines created America’s most militantly feminist union

The agency and its prospective nominees are adopting stricter ethics standards following a 2021 investigation.

President Biden joined striking workers on the picket line. Former ‘car czar’ Steve Rattner is furious.

You go to information war with the clickbait you have.

How does the president’s economic policy interact with the auto workers’ strike? David Dayen explains.

David Dayen and Robert Kuttner discuss whether President Biden is too old.