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A key tool that enables contractors to trap building services personnel in low-wage work has been upended by a bipartisan majority at the Federal Trade Commission.

Today on TAP: Now that Gaza has been leveled, the war on the rubble and those trapped in it may cease.

The health care conglomerate keeps former Hakeem Jeffries staffers and a Trump White House aide on its payroll.

In a major triumph for civic activists, the billionaire owners of the city’s NBA team backed out of an arena project that had been approved for the neighborhood.

Charles Littlejohn did America a service by exposing the tax avoidance of wealthy people like me.

Today on TAP: When biopics get it wrong—and occasionally get it just right

But there may be a way for Democrats to save Los Angeles.

One monopoly company should not have the power to decree which speech is permissible and which isn’t.

Today on TAP: How will the next Democratic House respond to the inevitable Florida hurricane?

The entire history of the attorney general nominee reveals a comfort with basing prosecutorial discretion on money, power, and proximity to the president.

Chair Jerome Powell is battling to keep control of the Federal Reserve. He and Trump agree on weak regulation. On cheap money policy, Trump is winning.

Prospect Medical Holdings is the latest sordid tale of legalized hospital embezzlement killing patients and communities. But the judge assigned to its bankruptcy raises eyebrows in a good way.

Today on TAP: The catastrophic L.A. fires will cast a harsh, clarifying light on Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

SEIU rejoins the AFL-CIO, even as arresting labor’s decline remains a daunting challenge.

An exit interview with Jonathan Kanter, Biden’s head of the Justice Department Antitrust Division

Twenty years of war has created tens of thousands of broken men and women.

On our live show, David and Harold talk about their common experiences on the Westside of Los Angeles, epicenter of the terrible wildfires raging across Southern California.

Today on TAP: Increasing damage from fires, hurricanes, and floods will destabilize a lightly regulated industry—and spill over into broader financial markets.

Why we’re publishing a previously undisclosed list of all 448 members of the Democratic National Committee

Justin Trudeau got himself into a fine mess, but the incoming Trump administration may be overestimating how pliable the next prime minister might be.