stLouISTThe Plutocratic Policies of No Labels
Today on TAP: Cutting Social Security, nixing increases to family benefits, No Labels’ economics are old-school Republican.
Prospect
Inside the Teamsters’ Historic Contract at UPS
The union’s new leadership used effective messaging and rank-and-file organization to win significant gains.
The Junk Fee Fight Spreads to Rental Housing
Transparency in rental costs and action at the state level are bringing new vigor to attacking landlord rip-offs.
After Securing State Contracts, Wind Developers Demand Subsidies and Higher Rates
Facing inflation and permitting hurdles, wind developers are turning around to ask for more cash. The immediate headwinds may conceal longer-term problems in wind energy.
Big Tech’s Relentless Influence on Trade Policy
How even Biden’s best officials are subject to insidious corporate pressure
Spain Keeps the Far Right Out
Today on TAP: The surprise outcome in Sunday’s election should not have been that much of a surprise.
Fully Automated Fruit Communism
Will there be bananas after the revolution?
Republicans Against Private Enterprise
In their view, business should be forced to be transphobic and ignore climate change.
The Predators Making Big Profits From Poverty
The shady tax refund industry skims onerous junk fees from low-income returns and shares personal taxpayer data in the process.
My Two-State Solution for Israel
NOT, in this instance, Israel and Palestine. Just Israel.
Why It Feels Like the 1850s
Today on TAP: States that deny rights to women are demanding that free states do their bidding—with the help of courts.
Democratic Senate Hopeful’s Company Resists FTC Investigation
Maryland’s David Trone’s liquor store chain enmeshed in antitrust case
The WaPo Editorialists Don’t Understand the American Economy
Or, for that matter, the American people
How Striking Hollywood Creators and Hotel Housekeepers Face the Same Obstacles
With consolidation and industry diversification, corporate studio and hotel owners have more money to wait out strikes.
The Self-Serving Derangement of the Rich
Today on TAP: Why Elon Musk can’t handle the truth
Unions Are Trying to Save Hollywood From Its Own Foolish Executives
Left to their own devices, the CEOs will ruin the American film and TV industry.
Investment Industry Donors Bankroll Sinema in Q2
Donors at Blackstone, the Carlyle Group, and other investment firms have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Sinema’s leadership PAC, which has been spending on upscale events and private flights.
Power and Progressivism
Today on TAP: Ezra Klein and David Dayen debate obstacles to progressive gains. (I think Dayen wins, but judge for yourself.)
Gig-ifying Hollywood
Film and television actors and writers are striking against low pay and bad working conditions.
Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.