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Q&A: Charleston’s Coming Storm

2 years ago
Harvard Law professor Susan Crawford dissects how the South Carolina city ignores its Black residents and its climate realities.
Gabrielle Gurley

The Republican Attack on Tenure

2 years ago
Today on TAP: The defenders of tenure as protecting academic freedom would have more credibility if they had resisted the plague of adjunct appointees, who have neither job security nor decent pay.
Robert Kuttner

Drowned in the Stream

2 years ago
Hard-hitting filmmaker Amy Ziering on why journalistic documentaries are facing extinction
Peter Hong

A Return to Rentiership

2 years ago
A new paper shows that rent-seeking by firms with dominant market positions has exploded since the 1980s.
Luke Goldstein

The Student Loan Case’s Unwilling Participant

2 years ago
MOHELA, the loan servicer that is the basis for standing in the Supreme Court case against student debt cancellation, didn’t want to be associated with it at all, according to newly released documents.
David Dayen

Team Biden

2 years ago
Today on TAP: It’s one of the most progressive ever.
Robert Kuttner