How do you clean up the Black experience in America to gloss over the history of slavery and Jim Crow?
Trump transition
Posted inEconomic Policy
How the Trump Tariffs Assist Monopoly
Imposing market power on suppliers or seeking special exemptions from the president are not avenues available to small businesses.
Posted inPolitics
The ‘Fighting Oligarchy’ Tour Takes Los Angeles
At ‘Berniechella,’ the message from Sen. Sanders and AOC was clear: ‘Giving up and hiding under the covers is not acceptable. The stakes are just too high.’
Posted inLaw and Justice
Will Trump Obey the Supreme Court?
The case of the man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison now urgently poses that question.
Posted inTAP
Could Jay Powell Restrain Trump?
Today on TAP: Trump’s destructive tariff policies could well require emergency Fed intervention that Powell doesn’t want. Will the Fed chair have the nerve to challenge Trump?
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Republican Budget Plan: Snatch Food From the Mouths of Hungry Children
SNAP cuts are ‘going to have a massive shock wave across the country, and everybody will feel it.’
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Manufacturing Boom We Already Had
A Q&A with Biden industrial-policy official Alex Jacquez on the right way to boost domestic production in critical sectors
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Opens the Door to More Medicare Advantage Fraud
Private insurance companies just got a massive boost to their payments through the program, while DOGE fires the people responsible for oversight.
Posted inWorking in America
USC Follows Amazon and Musk’s SpaceX in Calling Labor Board Unconstitutional
To block a union that would represent 2,500 faculty members, the private university echoed a corporate argument.
Posted inTAP
Sorry, but It’s Not Over
Today on TAP: Trump blinks for now, but he remains a bundle of contradictory impulses and grievances. So the wholly invented economic crisis will continue.
