The media’s penchant to balance the two parties and control the narrative didn’t quite work when it came to a Trump insult comic’s comments about Puerto Rico.
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Tales From the Crypt
Today on TAP: How the crypto industry corrupts American democracy, so that crypto can keep on corrupting American finance
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All the Money and Power in the World
Today on TAP: Announcing Organized Money, a new show about how the business world really works
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Notes for Harris
Today on TAP: It’s good that Kamala Harris is doing more one-on-one interviews, because she’s getting a lot better at it. Still, she occasionally misses an opportunity.
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The Polling Imperilment
Presidential polls are no more reliable than they were a century ago. So why do they consume our political lives?
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The Zeal of the Convert
Matthew Sheffield, a former rising star in the conservative movement, turned away from what he finally realized was an extremist, anti-truth agenda.
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Harris’s Gains Stall. Can Tonight’s Debate Change That?
Maybe, but we are still in for a close slog.
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The Election Story Nobody Wants to Talk About
A Q&A with David Neiwert, America’s foremost writer and thinker on far-right extremism, on what might happen if Trump wins—or loses
