Today on TAP: It makes good sense to retain the mask mandate, but keeping it is difficult politics.
coronavirus
Posted inCoronavirus
In Shanghai, the Essence of Authority Was Silence
The lockdown crisis in China’s richest city recalls decades of past food shortages and stirred a restless citizenry to speak out about a broken social contract.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Time to Tax Excessive Corporate Profits
We did during WWII and in the 1980s. It’s the right way to deal with ‘inflation’ that is pure price-gouging.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Supply Chains Are Easing. Or They’re Not.
Our system is so unstable that we could be seeing endless waves of supply dysfunction, with dangerous impacts on the economy.
Posted inCoronavirus
China’s Mysterious Vaccination Failure
Why did the Communist government fail to inoculate so many of its seniors?
Posted inPolitics
Immigration Politics Roils Pandemic Response
Democrats in tough re-election fights have joined Republicans in warning against the end of Title 42 expulsions at the southern border.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The American Rescue Plan’s Child Care Test Run
As an example of the promise of long-term investment in child care and early learning, it was wildly successful. But the money runs out soon.
Posted inBooks
The Privatization Myth
A deeply reported history of the past four decades of handing public services over to private companies provides a stunning account of how not to govern.
Posted inTAP
You Could Just Never Resume Student Loan Payments
Today on TAP: If President Biden wants to avoid mass student loan defaults, he can cancel the debt.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Corporate Past of Jeffrey Zients
The administration’s highest-ranking COVID official built his wealth through billing practices that have been alleged as fraud, triggering hundreds of millions in fines.
