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Biden, Bibi, and the Elusive Cease-Fire

1 year 7 months ago
Today on TAP: There will be no deal in time for the beginning of Ramadan tonight, and Netanyahu’s defiance keeps bleeding both Gaza and Biden’s re-election chances.
Robert Kuttner

A Capital Crime

1 year 8 months ago
Today on TAP: Fed Chair Jerome Powell is sabotaging a rule requiring stronger capital standards for banks—that he pretended to support.
Robert Kuttner

Intel’s $3.5 Billion Boondoggle

1 year 8 months ago
The microchip giant’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
Austin Ahlman

The Incoherence of Our Gaza Policy

1 year 8 months ago
Today on TAP: We provide Palestinians life’s necessities by air and sea, and provide Israel the arms to deny them those same necessities.
Harold Meyerson

Controlling Birth Control

1 year 8 months ago
On the eve of over-the-counter birth control pills, the GOP can’t possibly convince Americans that the right to contraception is wrong.
Gabrielle Gurley

The Spectacle of Policing

1 year 8 months ago
‘Swatting’ innocent people is the latest incarnation of the decades-long gestation of an infrastructure of fear.
Rick Perlstein