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The Company You Keep

11 months 1 week ago
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.
Justin Miller

Ranked-Choice Disaster

11 months 1 week ago
Today on TAP: Coloradans and Nevadans will decide this fall on switching to a form of voting that will chiefly benefit gazillionaire candidates.
Harold Meyerson

A Ponzi Scheme of Promises

11 months 1 week ago
Five years after the Business Roundtable ‘redefined’ the purpose of the corporation, has anything changed?
Adam M. Lowenstein

Trump’s Establishment Enablers

11 months 1 week ago
As political scientist Theda Skocpol warns, it’s wishful to imagine that Trumpism will fade away even after Trump goes.
Robert Kuttner

It’s the Guns, Stupid

11 months 1 week ago
Today on TAP: Are we so inured to the premise that nothing can be done about mass ownership of military weapons that gun control has vanished from discourse and debate?
Robert Kuttner

‘Steward Health Are Health Care Terrorists’

11 months 1 week ago
A fiery Senate committee hearing promised accountability for hospital looter Ralph de la Torre, but new raids are already under way at the hospitals and the broader health care system.
Maureen Tkacik