Today on TAP: Senate Democrats can’t move because they’re standing on their own feet.
Building Back America
Posted inTAP
Build Back Better Is a Pittance
Today on TAP: Floods, fires, droughts, and the increasing uninhabitability of much of the American West demonstrate that we should be spending a great deal more.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Fossil Fuel Industry Should Pay for Its Own Cleanup
A federal orphan well capping program shoves the cost of oil and gas production onto the public. There’s a better option.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why the War FOR Poverty Has Made Gains
Discontinuing the expanded Child Tax Credit has plunged millions of families back into poverty and its anxieties.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Biden’s Main Legislative Accomplishment Is in One Man’s Hands
Mitch Landrieu is overseeing the bipartisan infrastructure law. His record does not inspire confidence in how that might be handled.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
California Might Pass Its Own Personal Build Back Better
The Golden State is set to spend its capital gains haul on massive public investments in climate.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Federal Highway Removal Program Raises Hopes in California
But transit advocates and local leaders in communities of color worry that new infrastructure plans could repeat the harms of the past.
Posted inPolitics
Build Back Better Dies … Again
In a final admission of defeat, the administration is rebranding its ‘Build Back Better World’ foreign-policy initiative, removing references to its failed domestic agenda.
Posted inPolitics
The Accidental Revolution
Democrats got one thing right—the American Rescue Plan. It might just realign U.S. politics.