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Several perks for Alaska are thrown out of the bill. Will the senior Senator from the state remain loyal?

The Senate bids to save its Big Beautiful Bill by buying off Sen. Lisa Murkowski of the 49th state.

As Trump moves toward outright dictatorship, the Roberts Court keeps enabling him.

On our live show, David and Whitney Curry Wimbish discuss Zohran Mamdani's big win in New York City, and the Big Beautiful Bill's endgame in Washington.

The parliamentarian kicked out a key Medicaid provision, part of a $587 billion rollback in spending cuts. Republicans don’t have good options to deal with that.

New York City’s last progressive mayor had some successes but over intense opposition. Here's what the next one should look out for.

With immigration raids on the rise, many in need of health care are choosing to remain at home.

Today On TAP: When Wall Street gazillionaires take over a city, that city may rise up against them.

An insulting offer for a rural hospital fund is panned by Senate Republican holdouts. But the leadership is betting they’ll give in soon enough.

While some universities have capitulated to Trump’s NIH cuts, there are faculty and graduate student union leaders on the frontlines pushing back.

It threatens the principle of equity that undergirds veterans’ health care.

Jay Powell refuses to bend on interest rates, but he's as bad as Trump when it comes to promoting crypto and weakening other financial regulation.

New York City’s mayoral election provides a big surprise, with voters choosing Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani over former governor and sex pest Andrew Cuomo.

This version of the Big Beautiful Bill would hand vast subsidies to a toxic industry, all while gutting wind, solar, and green hydrogen.

President Lyndon B. Johnson created the Job Corps sixty years ago. Trump wants to cut off funding for this vital workforce development program.

Farmworkers struggle against deportation and even lower wages.

Today On TAP: Under Bibi, its Middle Eastern supremacy is one of blood and iron.

Enforcers are waving through bad mergers and weaponizing others to reach ideological ends.

A couple dozen provisions have been removed. No ruling yet on the biggest one, which could mean $3.7 trillion in fake ‘savings.’