Today on TAP: Labour won, but now Keir Starmer needs to earn his mandate.
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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The French Disconnection
France’s voters have a bare chance of keeping the far right from power, if the center and left can manage to cooperate.
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A Captive and Corrupted Court
Today on TAP: Roberts’s ruling gives Trump license to pursue dictatorship.
Posted inPolitics
A Tarnished Silver Lining
Biden was so inept that the case for replacing him is now overwhelming.
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Lessons of Bowman’s Loss
Today on TAP: No, it wasn’t a generalized defeat for ‘the left.’
Posted inAmerica and the World
Bob Menendez and Biden’s Cuba Policy
With the ultra-hawkish senator disgraced, what’s stopping Biden from resuming normalization of relations with Cuba?
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Republican Hit Job on the FDIC Backfires
Today on TAP: The successor to the ousted chair, Martin Gruenberg, is likely to be an even tougher regulator.
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The French Left Arises From the Dead
Today on TAP: A surprising result of President Macron’s impulsive decision to call a snap election
Posted inEconomic Policy
Fantasyland General
Hospital pricing is impenetrable to consumers and regulators alike. The result: increased costs and profits, and wasteful reliance on armies of middlemen.
