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Posted inEconomic Policy
The Raiding of Red Lobster
The bankrupt casual restaurant chain didn’t fail because of Endless Shrimp. Its problems date back to monopolist seafood conglomerates and a private equity play.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why Auto Insurance Rates Are Out of Control
The factors are partly structural, but also have to do with a corporate drive for profits and use of technology to precision-target customers.
Posted inPolitics
Money Misses the Mark in Maryland
Despite spending $62 million of his own fortune on the Democratic Senate primary, Rep. David Trone lost last night to county executive Angela Alsobrooks.
Posted inPolitics
Can We All Get Along?
A Q&A with Eman Abdelhadi, a Palestinian University of Chicago professor, about encampments, dialogue, and mutual respect
Posted inTAP
Swing Voters Prefer Democrats. Just Not Joe Biden.
Today on TAP: The party’s message wins strong support. Not so its top messenger.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Trendy Nonsense About Gen Z
It comes in two flavors, economic and psychological.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Entirely Wrong
FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Who Created the Israel-Palestine Conflict?
It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.
Posted inTAP
What College Presidents Need to Learn
Today on TAP: And what Joe Biden had better learn
