America’s mega-retailer can’t boost profits unless it gains entry to America’s largest cities. Against stiff resistance, it’s still trying.
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Which Path for Europe?
Wal-Mart couldn’t cut it in Germany. But while neighboring Scandinavia still pays retail workers well, the low-wage model is making inroads into other European countries.
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Wal-Mart’s China Connections
From production to retailing, Wal-Mart’s China operations display a dystopian collaboration between low-wage employer and autocratic state.
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TAP’s Take: For Freedom and Against Obama.
This week on our weekly podcast: Adam Serwer, Monica Potts, and Pema Levy talk about the evolving protests in Egypt, and the right-wing smear campaign against Planned Parenthood. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. Also, if you just want the RSS feed, it’s here. We’re on iTunes! Click “subscribe” to the right […]
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TAP’s Take: Redefining Rape.
This week on our weekly podcast: Adam Serwer, Monica Potts, and Jamelle Bouie talk about Congress’ attempt to redefine “rape,” and the tumult in Egypt. Listen Now: To download the mp3 directly, click here. Also, if you just want the RSS feed, it’s here. We’re on iTunes! Click “subscribe” to the right to get TAP’s […]
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Redefining Rape
This week on our weekly podcast: Adam Serwer, Monica Potts, and Pema Levy talk about the evolving protests in Egypt, and the right-wing smear campaign against Planned Parenthood.
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TAP Talks to Bill Richardson
The New Mexico Gov. and Democratic presidential hopeful discusses balanced budgets, universal health care, and what it means to be “pro-growth.”
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The Vote Rocks
The last day of the election season, I am seized with the same anxieties that so many people are. But we should also take note of some major positives in this election, which are already true, regardless of Tuesday’s outcome. They confound some of the accepted critiques of our democracy and create a base to […]
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Ballot Boxing
Six months after the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) — whose passage was sparked by the disputed 2000 presidential vote — became law, the action on election reform has shifted to the state level. State governments are now charged with implementing the legislation, and while that poses the danger that some states will take […]
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Of Our Time: Cyberpower and Freedom
In politics and the public imagination, computers have gone from symbolizing our vulnerability to embodying our possibilities. In their early days during the 1950s and 1960s, computers seemed destined to increase the power of government and big corporations, and the great worry was how to protect privacy and individual freedom. Then the advent of the […]
