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Money from the Climate-Smart Commodities program, designed to reduce agriculture emissions, is going disproportionately to multinationals.

Mergers temporarily strengthen labor’s bargaining chip. But in the long run, anti-monopoly experts say, corporate power crushes workers and consumers.

A new Pantone series for 2023

Today on TAP: The Health and Human Services Department recommends loosening federal restrictions on cannabis.

If you earn less than $55,000 a year and work more than 40 hours a week, you could be eligible for time and a half.

Despite promises that new repayment plans would make monthly payments lower, many borrowers report they are higher.

A climate backlash over the expansion of emission fees on older vehicles simmers in Britain.

To make sense of Ron DeSantis, who trolls a liberal elite that has not faced its own failures, a former teammate reflects on their time playing baseball at Yale in the 1990s.

Today on TAP: There are too many realms with public consequences where the private sector is inefficient and rapacious. Some might call the remedy socialism.

Advocates were thrilled that Medicare will negotiate the price of several insulins. But other high-profit drugs are protected by the new program’s rules.

Investor-owned utilities have been at the forefront of numerous political scandals and ecological disasters. There is an alternative.

Sixty years ago, the great march set me on a different path.

Today on TAP: The two national papers’ commemoration of the March on Washington profiled participants, but skipped their politics.

The gas tax is effectively a user fee on roads. EV drivers don’t pay it. How do we deal with that?

Will Medicare use its ample leverage to make Wegovy affordable?

One year after IRA passage, bad actors try to thwart drug price negotiation, and Biden’s efforts to defend it fall short.

Today on TAP: A broad coalition asserts, with plenty of evidence hidden in plain view, that Fox fails the FCC’s character test.

A little-noticed Justice Department case alleges that Alabama’s Medical Properties Trust engaged in ‘fraudulent conveyance.’

While the agreement gives Ultium Cells workers a raise of more than 20 percent, membership overwhelmingly voted to authorize a strike of the Big Three automakers after September 14.

A decision last Friday makes union organizing possible again.