Today on TAP: The former prime minister has all but taken over the Labour Party and pushed it to the right. Didn’t Tony Blair, nicknamed Tory Blur, do enough damage last time?
Europe
Posted inWorking in America
Southern Autoworkers Organize, Business Class Tries to Wallop Them
Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, face a coordinated attack on their organizing, but have learned from two prior losses.
Posted inAmerica and the World
A Make-or-Break Year for a Ukraine in Limbo
Between its stalled counteroffensive and divisions in the U.S. and Europe, Ukraine is stuck in a doom loop.
Posted inTAP
The Momentum From the UAW’s Victorious Strike Continues
Today on TAP: In Alabama and Tennessee, workers are signing up with the union at VW, Hyundai, and Mercedes.
Posted inPolitics
American Fascism
Author and scholar John Ganz on how Europe’s interwar period informs the present
Posted inTAP
The Airbus Advantage
Today on TAP: Why Europe’s mixed economy produces safer planes than America’s financialized capitalism
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Ambassador for Crypto
Sean Patrick Maloney, an adviser to Coinbase, is nominated as the U.S. representative to the OECD, which is building regulatory frameworks for crypto.
Posted inEducation in America
Neoliberalism and Education
A conversation between Robert Kuttner and Cathie Martin
Posted inTAP
Year-End Musings, and How We Get Through ’24
Today on TAP: Israel and Palestine, Europe and America: What’s next?
Posted inWorking in America
Microsoft, Musk, and the Question of Unions
Suddenly, a leading American corporation appears to be OK with the idea of collective bargaining. Hint: It’s not Tesla.
