Today on TAP: The money is not that huge, but the optics are terrible.
Robert Kuttner
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University’s Heller School. His latest book is Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America. Follow Bob at his site, robertkuttner.com, and on Twitter.
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More Evidence for a Big Fed Rate Cut
Today on TAP: Even Ben Bernanke and Alan Greenspan were less perversely hawkish than current Fed chair Jay Powell, as Barney Frank reminds us.
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The Turnout Debate
Today on TAP: Will better-than-average mobilization of the potential Democratic base rescue Harris-Walz from a cliff-hanger election?
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Defending a Free and Fair Election
How concerned should we be about tactics to impair voting? And what should be done to resist?
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How Much Money Do You Need?
Today on TAP: The counterweight to insanely greedy capital has to be mobilized labor.
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Trump’s Supreme Court Trashes Student Debt Relief
Today on TAP: The conversion of the high court into a body of opportunistic partisan hacks, courtesy of Trump’s three appointees, needs to be a bigger issue in the election.
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The Scourge of AIPAC
Today on TAP: The Israel lobby is spending a fortune to oust and intimidate Democratic progressives in Congress. What’s the remedy?
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A British Preview of Kamala’s Challenges
Britain’s new Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has a huge majority, but defeatist constraints of his own making.
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Powell Reluctantly Relents
Today on TAP: After long delay and needless economic damage, the Fed chair commits to cutting interest rates.
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It Took a Village: The Making of Progressive Tim Walz
Gov. Walz signed into law one of the most progressive packages ever. He didn’t do it alone.
