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A breakthrough report details how utility companies use bogus models to earn excess profits.

There are more important things than the state’s corporate franchise fees.

A House committee has detailed why Alibaba could be a national-security threat. The New Jersey Problem Solver sees it as an investment opportunity.

Today on TAP: Democracies are out. It’s KGB and KKK; now we’re with them all the way!

The Trump administration is maintaining the merger guidelines that Lina Khan co-authored, and big business is angry.

Who could it be? You get two guesses.

With New York’s shield laws under attack in Texas and Louisiana, a new assault on abortion rights is imminent.

Fans have been pushing pop stars to take courageous political stands, but Chappell Roan’s skirmish with an obnoxious exec shows how hard it is for them to stand up even for themselves.

The Observer has identified the operator of ‘GlomarResponder,’ an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden.

Today on TAP: It’s a promising concept, but the devil is in the details.

The Trump White House insists he’s a ‘special government employee.’ That designation has a time limit.

Empires have fallen before. But it’s never been this purely idiotic.

Trump’s new VA secretary is a bigger threat to veterans’ care than Elon Musk.

Today on TAP: Fearing workers’ professionalism and workers’ rights, Republicans are going after both.

What’s behind his broadside against Joe Biden’s economics?

As fear mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the city rebuild and support their families.

He authored the Constitution to forestall the rise of a despotic president. We’ll soon see if those safeguards suffice.

The trench warfare in sanctuary cities and states to protect innocent families from Trump’s ICE raids

A Biden-era CFPB rule limiting overdraft fees is under challenge, and lawmakers used bank lobbyists for their testimonials.

This is not about who’s been fired, but who’s still working in the government.