Today on TAP: How serious is the continuing appeal of the far right?
Elections
Posted inHousing
Homeowners Want Housing Prices to Go Up
This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable-housing policy.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Britain’s Turn to Labour
After the upcoming election, will we see a welcome shift to progressive rebuilding—or more austerity and neoliberalism?
Posted inTAP
A Valedictory Recommendation for What Unions Need to Do
Today on TAP: On stepping down, the president of the nation’s hotel workers union calls for a movement-wide organizing campaign at Amazon.
Posted inPolitics
High-Tech to No-Tech Vote Counting
Hand-counting ballots is expensive, tedious, time-consuming, inaccurate, and insecure. Some communities want it all.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Bracing for ‘Argentina’s Trump’
Both friends and foes of the newly elected populist president say their future under him is uncertain, but the certain misery of the present led to his win.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Are Breaking America’s Ancient Constitution
Parliaments have mechanisms for resolving the impasse in the House of Representatives. The U.S. does not.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The CFTC Ponders Gambling on Democracy’s Future
Gambling site Kalshi is spending big on a lobbying campaign to allow people to bet on the end of the American republic.
Posted inTAP
Argentina: Vultures Come Home to Roost
Today on TAP: How America’s most predatory hedge funds deepened Argentina’s economic miseries and helped invite a far-right reaction
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Spain Keeps the Far Right Out
Today on TAP: The surprise outcome in Sunday’s election should not have been that much of a surprise.