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Today on TAP: Following the EU elections, the neofascist right squares off against the neo–Popular Front left.

The big banks behind the rising cost of credit

The forced upgrade to Microsoft’s E5 productivity apps, ostensibly for cybersecurity reasons, is an example of the software giant’s insinuation into government tech systems.

A Jewish-Palestinian group mobilized at the checkpoints where far-right settlers were stopping trucks carrying food—and enabled the trucks to go through.

Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World

Today on TAP: How serious is the continuing appeal of the far right?

Digital subscriptions are here to stay. What should we do about that?

Republicans have tipped their hand again.

On Donald Trump’s genius at exploiting working-class male displacement and anxiety

This week on our live show, David Dayen and Lindsay Owens of Groundwork Collaborative talk pricing.

Today on TAP: The amazing creativity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

How Chris Rufo attempted to corrupt a lefty academic.

Businesses are hiking prices to take advantage of consumers. They learned it from Uber.

This is ultimately the biggest hurdle for affordable-housing policy.

The public evidence and mounting legal action tell a pretty clear story.

Today on TAP: Unless Tesla shareholders grant him this tidy bonus, he’s threatened to take his marbles elsewhere.

In a bipartisan letter, the senators say that Amazon was misleading about whether it controls aspects of work at its third-party transportation partners.

Extra profits are the only explanation for many fees businesses charge.

The insistence from GOP elites that they mean to do no such thing is a lie.

Documents obtained by The Sick Times reveal the bastion of the medical establishment squandered a billion dollars on a long COVID study that seems suspiciously designed to fail.