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If a good guy with a gun is the answer to gun violence, then why has the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives relied on interim directors for nearly a decade?

A patchwork of different rules decide which workers earn time and a half around the country.

The situation, which dates back 15 years, could be remedied by the Biden administration, which has vowed to make the federal government a ‘model employer.’

Today on TAP: Public opinion does not support racist killings. Joe Biden needs to hold Republicans accountable, by name.

What’s the deal with the shortage of baby formula and solar panels? Prospect executive editor David Dayen explains.

The Joe Manchin wing of the party lost big on Tuesday.

Several of them involve startups in crypto, just as the products are crashing and the need for regulation is more acute than ever.

Global Strategy Group is a good case study of the type of PR and advisory firm the Democrats could do without.

Today on TAP: But there’s paid family leave only in states where abortion is legal and will remain so. No state where it’s being criminalized would consider such post-birth decency.

The Buffalo racist mass murderer parroted Fox News talking points.

Will voters see through the phony kind and give true economic populists a hearing?

Fareed Zakaria’s latest idea for a diplomatic bargain with the country is too clever by half.

Today on TAP: His draft opinion overturning ‘Roe’ has the anti-abortion movement in frantic damage control mode. Will the spin work?

From pandemic supply chain snarls to baby formula shortages, we forgot that physical production isn’t magic, and we need to engineer it for stability.

The ‘socially responsible’ company downplays the flood of complaints from its largely Latina workforce, but has paid over $100,000 to OSHA for multiple health and safety violations.

But transit advocates and local leaders in communities of color worry that new infrastructure plans could repeat the harms of the past.

Today on TAP: What it means for the real economy and the fortunes of Democrats

In races in North Carolina and Pennsylvania, corporate PAC ads have been taken off TV for misinformation.

Which the media generally doesn’t bother to point out (or contrast what they say with the truth) after quoting them

Cryptocurrency, NFTs, and stablecoins are a trillion-dollar trash fire.