Today on TAP: He proposed a 50 percent tariff on Brazilian imports unless they stop trying to hold Bolsonaro accountable for his attempted coup.
Economic Policy
Posted inLaw and Justice
Anti-Bureaucracy Measure Runs Into Bureaucracy
Judges and administrative procedures make it hard to make it easy to cancel subscriptions.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Right-Wing State Tax ‘Revolution’ Rolls On
Several red states, pressed on by Koch-funded conservative groups, are moving to enact flat taxes or eliminate income taxes altogether.
Posted inEconomic Policy
MAGA’s Gift to China
Trump’s tariffs aren’t helping America. But they are helping someone else.
Posted inTAP
Ezra Klein Meets Zohran Mamdani
Today on TAP: Abundance for working people blows away YIMBY.
Posted inWorking in America
States Take the Lead on Banning Noncompete Agreements
The FTC will probably stop defending its proposed worker protection on July 10. But action in both red and blue states is heating up.
Posted inPolitics
Trump versus the Fed
Jay Powell refuses to bend on interest rates, but he’s as bad as Trump when it comes to promoting crypto and weakening other financial regulation.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country
Climate-fueled disasters cost America almost a trillion dollars over the last year, far more than economists predicted.
Posted inTAP
Trump Has Found a Way to Exacerbate the Housing Shortage
Today on TAP: With housing starts at a five-year low, his ICE agents deport hundreds of construction workers every day.
Posted inPolitics
The Real Democratic Civil War
It’s not so much about ‘abundance’ as it is about how to reconnect with a justifiably angry working class.
