Today on TAP: Trump rewards the real offshorers with trillions in tax cuts.
corporate power
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies
Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
Posted inPolitics
Can the Democrats Reclaim Economic Populism?
That challenge is key to winning back voters who deserted the Harris-Walz ticket in 2024. Some rank-and-file members are calling for something new.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump Scrambles to Pardon Corporate Criminals He Once Prosecuted
First the gutted CFPB pronounced ‘Whites Only’ marketing legal again. Now Boeing wants to renege on the sweetheart deal of the century.
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Bezos Attacks Toddler Safety
Today on TAP: Amazon sues to abolish the one federal agency empowered to identify and recall highly flammable little-kid PJs.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Bubble Trouble
An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Cold War Kids
Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump Tries to Fire Lina Khan’s Lieutenants at the FTC
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya have been illegally terminated. It’s a bid to centralize executive power.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Private Equity Vultures Descend on Care Facilities for the Disabled
A new report chronicles ten years of consolidation.
Posted inWorking in America
Amazon Uses Arsenal of AI Weapons Against Workers
A study of a union election at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, shows that the company weaponizes its algorithmic surveillance tools to prevent organizing.