Today on TAP: Many liberal publications supported invading Iraq. We didn’t.
Media
Biden’s Ostrich Maneuver on Immigration
Trying to keep immigration stories out of the headlines is futile, and the policies meant to facilitate that are damaging.
The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic
Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic.
Presidential Document Scandals Should Take Down America’s Secrecy Industry
We classify way too many documents. Unfortunately, that will probably not be the takeaway from recent events.
Altercation: Deal-Making Republican ‘Pragmatists’? Like, Who?
The ‘moderates’ who want a debt default: a case study in journalistic destruction of the meaning of words
The Misleading Reporting on Inflation
Today on TAP: The coverage overstates the problem, feeding the narrative of a necessary recession.
Altercation: On the Roots of Fascism
Is it belief in an ideology that creates fascists, or is it the permission to become a thug?
Altercation: George Santos a Liar? Small-Time When Compared to His Fellow Republicans.
In the party of Trump, deceit is the new common parlance.
The Inflation Numbers Game
Inflation for the past five months was mild, but the media still blares the higher year-over-year numbers.

