The White House nominates SEIU’s longtime general counsel to a seat on the Fourth Circuit.
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Train Wreck of a Trade Deal
Today on TAP: The Biden administration has to slow-walk a marquee agreement, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. That might even be a blessing in disguise.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Star Witness Against Google: Google’s AI Chatbot
Bard is remarkably candid about the company’s intentions to leverage Big Data into AI to make its rivals, and the rest of the web, irrelevant.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The AMA Debates a Federal Ban on Corporate Medicine
A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.
Posted inWorking in America
Business Groups’ Reflexive Anti-Worker Demagogy
In New York, the business lobby resorts to apocalyptic ads to stop a ban on noncompete provisions.
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Biden’s Weird Nomination of Kurt Campbell
Today on TAP: The president’s choice for deputy secretary of state is badly at odds with Biden’s own policies on trade.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Culture of Corporate Criminal Impunity Continues
Attorney General Merrick Garland continues to let big companies skate.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Slow Cooker of Corporate Flameouts
A band of Reddit contrarians tried to make Rite Aid the first meme stock. A truly staggering series of miscues thwarted their dreams.
Posted inEconomic Policy
White House to Force Companies to Share Artificial-Intelligence Data
It’s part of the administration’s new framework for regulating AI.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
After Historic Subsidies, Hydrogen Giants Threaten Regulations Could Throttle Industry
A Clinton-era hydrogen company, Plug Power, fights to embed its business model in the tax code.
