Janet Yellen is stating that there’s no alternative but for Congress to increase the borrowing threshold, while giving herself room to take action if they don’t.
Republicans
The Smart Bipartisan Plan to Shore Up Social Security
Bill Cassidy and Angus King propose an American social wealth fund.
McCarthy’s 21 Republican Defectors Didn’t Get Much
That’s because the party already agreed with them.
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
Turning the Debt Ceiling Crisis Against McCarthy’s Republicans
Biden needs to play serious hardball, or he will get rolled.
The Inevitable Prosecutions of Women Who Obtain Abortions
The attorney general of Alabama finally went where the logic of the anti-abortion movement has long pointed.
Et Tu, Jared Polis?
Buses are not the answer to emergency migrant services and immigration policy reforms.
Altercation: On the Roots of Fascism
Is it belief in an ideology that creates fascists, or is it the permission to become a thug?
The Biden Documents ‘Scandal’
Today on TAP: There’s no equivalence between l’affaire Biden documents and l’affaire Trump documents—but politically, that may not matter so much.
States Should Celebrate the FTC’s Noncompete Ban … and Then Pass Their Own
To guard against a Republican rollback, states can act to protect worker freedoms.

