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Today on TAP: The UAW’s defeat in Alabama highlights the challenges that unions still face until our labor laws again give workers their rights.

The industry has become a major spender in political campaigns, and the most prodigious fundraiser among Democrats is taking notice.

Greg Abbott’s pardon is an attack on multiracial democracy.

Will Biden’s gamble pay off, after the Trump campaign’s surprising acceptance of the debate terms?

Leniency is needed for a good kind of civil disobedience.

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: It’s hard to think of a more useless financial invention. Crypto began as a fringe fad, disdained by the big investment banks. Now, Wall Street is cashing in.

A new survey of key swing states shows how it could be done, but—granting its necessity—it sure sounds difficult.

There are 16 cases that should go forward because of the Supreme Court ruling confirming the Bureau’s constitutionality. It’s been slow going.

How abortion plus Charm City infrastructure miscues could torpedo Larry Hogan’s Senate chances

On our weekly live show, David Dayen and Bob Kuttner discuss new efforts to boost the domestic electric-vehicle industry.

Today on TAP: Elizabeth Warren has had quite a run lately.

The rhetorically modest but functionally powerful ruling that ended segregation shouldn’t be misused to forestall other efforts at racial equality.

Instead of giving in to cynicism, Congress created an agency to protect consumers. The Supreme Court declined to overrule it.

Today on TAP: If there’s presidential immunity, why not congressional?

The factors are partly structural, but also have to do with a corporate drive for profits and use of technology to precision-target customers.

The preferred journals of the power elite peddle the myth of pending Social Security catastrophe, which is catastrophically wrong.

Despite efforts to rein in emissions, state is unlikely to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, group says.

Today on TAP: Once again, mainstream analysts and Fed economists miss the real story in the latest inflation numbers—which is hidden in plain view if you bother to look.

The right of assembly is being steadily eroded.