Today on TAP: Rates have been cut by a full half-point. It’s about time.
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Ranked-Choice Disaster
Today on TAP: Coloradans and Nevadans will decide this fall on switching to a form of voting that will chiefly benefit gazillionaire candidates.
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It’s the Guns, Stupid
Today on TAP: Are we so inured to the premise that nothing can be done about mass ownership of military weapons that gun control has vanished from discourse and debate?
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What Might a President Harris Do on Israel?
Today on TAP: A different course on the Middle East is urgently needed, and harder than you might think.
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The Limits of Harris’s Family Policy
Today on TAP: $6,000 for newborns and universal affordable child care are great—but don’t speak to many young men.
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Notes for Next Time
Today on TAP: Kamala Harris did well in the debate but missed some opportunities to remind voters of Trump’s sheer craziness.
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Pre-Debate Jitters
Today on TAP: On the eve of the Harris-Trump face-off, some further signs that Democratic economics delivered
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Kamala’s Capital Capitulation
Today on TAP: The money is not that huge, but the optics are terrible.
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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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U.S. Steel Threatens to Go Rogue
Today on TAP: Its CEO reacts to Biden’s rejection of its sale to Nippon by vowing to lay waste to Pittsburgh.