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A Tale of Two Disasters

1 year 5 months ago
Today on TAP: The Titan submersible tragedy has overshadowed the sinking of a boat carrying hundreds of impoverished migrants.
Francois Furstenberg

Fleecing in Indian Country

1 year 5 months ago
An undercovered SCOTUS decision brushes against Native sovereign immunity, but also potentially snuffs out loopholes exploited by payday lenders.
Jarod Facundo

Q&A: Charleston’s Coming Storm

1 year 5 months ago
Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford dissects how the South Carolina city ignores its Black residents and its climate realities.
Gabrielle Gurley

The Republican Attack on Tenure

1 year 5 months ago
Today on TAP: The defenders of tenure as protecting academic freedom would have more credibility if they had resisted the plague of adjunct appointees, who have neither job security nor decent pay.
Robert Kuttner

Drowned in the Stream

1 year 5 months ago
Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction
Peter Hong

A Return to Rentiership

1 year 5 months ago
A new paper shows that rent-seeking by firms with dominant market positions has exploded since the 1980s.
Luke Goldstein

The Student Loan Case’s Unwilling Participant

1 year 5 months ago
MOHELA, the loan servicer that is the basis for standing in the Supreme Court case against student debt cancellation, didn’t want to be associated with it at all, according to newly released documents.
David Dayen