America used to be a pioneer in democratizing culture.
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Canceling Kimmel. Canceling Speech. Canceling Comedy.
Today on TAP: Making jokes has never been this dangerous, except in authoritarian states.
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Disney’s Catch and Kill
Disney wanted to corner the market on sports streaming. A rival blocked them. So Disney bought the rival.
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What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention.
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Will DeSantis’s Culture War Backfire?
Increasing cancellations of convention plans and business investments are starting to damage Florida’s economy.
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The Lose-Lose DeSantis-Disney Fight
As Disney cancels investments in Florida, the proxy culture war masks a battle between a governor pretending to slay big business and a mega-corporation wanting to entrench its power.
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What Is DeSantis’s Game?
Today on TAP: The Florida governor has peaked too soon and has nowhere to go but down.
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The Magic Kingdom Is Tragic for Workers
A new film from Abigail Disney, granddaughter of the co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, takes a look at how workers have been crushed by a new corporate philosophy.
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DeSantis and Disney: A Plague on Both Their Houses
Today on TAP: It’s unconscionable and probably unconstitutional to punish the Walt Disney Company for opposing Florida’s anti-LGBTQ legislation. But Disney’s private-government deal is its own scandal.