Today on TAP: To the American and Catholic right wing, the Pope’s Christian humanism was all but heretical.
Conservatism
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.
Posted inPolitics
Right-Wing Donors and Foundations Spent $1 Billion to Keep People From Voting Last Year
A new study documents the fortunes spent to suppress voting in 2024.
Posted inTAP
Bezos’s New Editorial Team: All the President’s Men
Today on TAP: The primary goal of the Post’s new editorial policy is to protect the owner’s wealth.
Posted inEducation in America
Conservatives Have Big Plans for D.C. Public Schools
Making vouchers universal in D.C. would be universally unpopular, but there’s nothing to stop the GOP.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Jimmy Carter’s Economic Legacy
He helped turn the Democratic Party away from its New Deal foundations.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
We Already Run the Post Office Like a Business
The U.S. Postal Service loses money because of stifling rules and a mandate to serve the entire country. Privatization would only raise costs and reduce service.
Posted inPolitics
MAGA’s Way or the Highway
How the cold civil war shares characteristics with the hot one
Posted inPolitics
Dr. Strangekennedy
Or, how you should learn to worry more about illiberal politics in liberal guise
Posted inLaw and Justice
America’s Judicial Divisions Take New Shape Under Trump
The Fifth Circuit has been the legal center of gravity for years. That’s probably going to change soon.