Today on TAP: The odyssey of some confused lefties who migrate to the far right—and the cure
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
On Drug Prices, Biden Opts for Talk Over Action
The administration says it has the ability to employ march-in rights to lower drug prices. When will it actually use them?
Posted inDay One Agenda
A Revolution in Cost-Benefit Rules
How Biden’s new team at the Office of Management and Budget is reversing several decades of pseudo-technical right-wing mischief
Posted inDay One Agenda
Reclaiming the Deep State
How the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the longtime graveyard of regulation in the public interest, became its unlikely champion.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Presidential Climate Malpractice
Joe Biden’s mishandling of the many episodes of the Joe Manchin follies imperiled a burning planet—and the executive actions he should take have not materialized.
Posted inDay One Agenda
How to Dismantle For-Profit Colleges, Without Congress
A previously undisclosed memo to the Education Department offers a step-by-step guide to closing predatory schools before they suck up more federal loans.
Posted inDay One Agenda
The Progressive Caucus Unveils Its Day One Agenda
A blueprint for executive action includes 55 different items Biden can implement without Congress.
Posted inPolitics
There Is a Bully Pulpit
And thanks to the Supreme Court, Biden will need to use it.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Now Can We Try the Day One Agenda?
With Joe Manchin pulling the string on Biden’s signature legislation, it’s past time for him to use his own authority to make progress.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Biden’s Back on the Day One Agenda
Executive actions on right to repair and noncompete agreements show the power of implementing existing laws that can help people.