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Republicans have tipped their hand again.

On Donald Trump’s genius at exploiting working-class male displacement and anxiety

This week on our live show, David Dayen and Lindsay Owens of Groundwork Collaborative talk pricing.

Today on TAP: The amazing creativity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

How Chris Rufo attempted to corrupt a lefty academic.

Businesses are hiking prices to take advantage of consumers. They learned it from Uber.

This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable-housing policy.

The public evidence and mounting legal action tell a pretty clear story.

Today on TAP: Unless Tesla shareholders grant him this tidy bonus, he’s threatened to take his marbles elsewhere.

In a bipartisan letter, the senators say that Amazon was misleading about whether it controls aspects of work at its third-party transportation partners.

Extra profits are the only explanation for many fees businesses charge.

The insistence from GOP elites that they mean to do no such thing is a lie.

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.

Today on TAP: The real source of too many price hikes is concentrated market power, not macroeconomic overheating.

An epidemic of crime and mismanagement has ruined things from drinking water to airplanes.

A growing number of industries are using software to fix prices. Law enforcers are beginning to fight back.

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.

If the American people don’t want tax cuts and deregulation, too bad.

Today on TAP: Which he hopes will increase the number of voters who will settle for him rather than reinstall Trump.

Digital surveillance and customer isolation are individualizing the prices we pay.