A change to public records laws, which takes effect today, allows legislators full discretion to retain, sell, or destroy their own documents.
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Unions and Worker Voice
Today on TAP: The other great contribution of the labor movement
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MAGA and MR(Russia)GA Worship the Same Bloody Gods
Today on TAP: It grows hard to distinguish the Putinists from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
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It Took a Village to Try to Seize the Presidency
Today on TAP: As the Georgia indictments make all too clear.
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Indicting the System That Bred Trumpism
These overdue charges take us only partway back to functioning democracy.
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My Two-State Solution for Israel
NOT, in this instance, Israel and Palestine. Just Israel.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Modi Visit Part of a Geopolitical Great Game
India is seen as a strategic counterweight to China, and that has overridden any U.S. concerns about repression against ethnic minorities and the press.
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The Socialist Emergence Inside the Democratic Tradition
At a conference for socialist elected officials, the task is to ‘represent the movement of the future in the movement of the present.’
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Democracy Under Siege
It’s alive and well in Central Europe—but alas, in few other places.
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Is Capitalism Really Cracking Up Nation-States?
Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.