With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.
Conservatism
Posted inEconomic Policy
Right-Wing State Tax ‘Revolution’ Rolls On
Several red states, pressed on by Koch-funded conservative groups, are moving to enact flat taxes or eliminate income taxes altogether.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Not Only a Threat to Trans Rights
The Supreme Court rules against health care access for trans youth. Don’t count on other sex-based rulings to stand either.
Posted inTAP
Conservatives on Trump: Don’t Blame Us!
Today on TAP: In a tour de force of sophistry, George Will says Trump is really one of those god-awful progressives.
Posted inTAP
Is Rupert Murdoch Breaking With Trump?
Today on TAP: The Wall Street Journal editorial page joins reality.
Posted inWorking in America
A Working-Class Pope
By his deeds, and by choosing the name of the last Pope Leo, the new pope’s Catholicism appears Christian—and even social—democratic.
Posted inPolitics
Demonizers
David Horowitz bequeathed his rage-filled and slanderous extremism to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and MAGA world.
Posted inEducation in America
The Culture War Comes Home to Florida International University
Gov. Ron DeSantis installs another far-right ally to lead one of the state’s top schools as he tightens his control over public universities and colleges.
Posted inTAP
Francis and His Critics
Today on TAP: To the American and Catholic right wing, the Pope’s Christian humanism was all but heretical.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Wisconsin Court Election Drawing Elon Musk’s Money
Liberals and conservatives face off in the most political apolitical race in the country.
