Congress is ready to settle for less, or nothing at all.
Gun Violence
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Bullets and Biden’s Bully Pulpit
Today on TAP: Sometimes a feeble compromise is worse than nothing.
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Competence Meets Chaos in Maine Governor’s Race
Do Mainers want a governor to do the job or a petty chief executive to wreck the place again?
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Why Uvalde Cops Were Too Cowardly to Charge a Mass Shooter
American police are taught first and foremost to fear for their own lives.
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How the Senate—Once, Long Ago—Banned Assault Weapons
Today on TAP: Courage and common sense were necessary but not sufficient. Here’s how it passed.
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A System That Allows Children to Be Killed
At the root of the Uvalde massacre is a wheezing politics and its meager facsimiles of solutions.
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Of Massacres, ATF Directors, and Ukrainian Condolences
The confirmation of Steve Dettelbach is not assured.
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The Senate Has Forfeited Its Right to Exist
Not even 19 butchered children can break through its idiotic traditions.
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Republicans on the Wrong Side of Public Outrage
Today on TAP: Their opposition to gun laws and assault on women’s health should be center-stage issues.
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Good Guys With Guns?
If a good guy with a gun is the answer to gun violence, then why has the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives relied on interim directors for nearly a decade?
