Today on TAP: Not if we ignore the pack-rat punditry and take a closer look.
Republicans
Posted inLaw and Justice
Conservative Judicial Ruling Threatens Functioning of Daily Life
The attempt to make the CFPB unconstitutional has grave consequences.
Posted inTAP
Is Kevin McCarthy the Next Liz Truss?
Today on TAP: The six-week reign of the U.K.’s PM makes clear that Reaganomics is a disaster in the real world—but Republicans don’t live in the real world.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Republicans Are Coming for Your Social Security and Medicare
The party of starving grandma returns to its roots.
Posted inPolitics
The Limits of Pro-Worker Conservatism
Today’s reformers of the right have no connection to the Republican Party’s past accomplishments in strengthening the social contract.
Posted inTAP
How the Center Enables Fascism
Today on TAP: It’s not enough to be ‘pro-democracy.’ It’s necessary to be pro-worker.
Posted inPolitics
Colorado Swing-Seat House Candidates Debate Amid a Flood of Outside Money
Democrat Yadira Caraveo is painting her opponent Barbara Kirkmeyer as an extremist. Kirkmeyer is focused on inflation.
Posted inPolitics
Altercation: The Sunday Shows Enable Republican Extremism
TV bookers apparently can’t stop themselves from giving an uncritical platform to anti-democracy demagogues.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
On Marijuana, a Tough-on-Crime Republican Fail in Progress
Political and economic indicators point to more liberalization ahead.
Posted inPolitics
Republicans Seize on Congressional Stock Trading Ban
On the campaign trail, Republicans are attacking Pelosi and Democrats over a failed bipartisan effort at the end of September.
