Prospect

Today on TAP: As both presidential candidates endorse eliminating taxes on tips, in Arizona businesses look to reduce the subminimum wage for those same tipped workers.

Israel is not automatically good.

Faulty credit ratings were a cause of the 2008 crisis. One whistleblower complaint argues that the same dynamic is happening again.

The election for superintendent of public instruction features a mainstream educator against a homeschooler.

Chicago officials have been terrified that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott would inundate the DNC with migrant buses. But the people of Chicago may have already called Abbott’s bluff.

Today on TAP: I promise to treat them with the utmost in journalistic integrity.

Steward grifter Ralph de la Torre, supposedly under criminal investigation on two continents, is now telecommuting from Versailles.

Bringing tech and finance executives into government because they are ‘the country’s smartest and hardest-working people’ is faintly ridiculous.

The Robinson-Patman Act is mischaracterized as punishing low prices. It’s actually about preventing powerful monopolies that raise prices in the future.

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Today on TAP: She needs to signal a new policy. But with Biden sticking to the current one, that will be far from easy.

Tim Walz is seen as a champion for workers. But how have they actually done under his leadership? Pretty well.

Contra Jon Chait, Biden’s economic progressivism has been both historic and (had he only been able to explain it) good politics.

Democrats are trying to pick up a seat in western Wisconsin. Two major candidates stress small-town values, but Rebecca Cooke was also a political fundraiser.

Kamala Harris borrows from Donald Trump with a perk to the Culinary Union at a raucous rally in Las Vegas: eliminating taxes on tips.

Will voters be able to sort out the truth from disinformation?

Today on TAP: The right’s pathetic effort to find some smear that will damage Gov. Walz

The party is seemingly suffering an outbreak of competence.

The path includes appeals challenges, a judicially ordered remedy phase, and a change in the presidency.

It’s more than his moves from government to corporate America. It’s what he did while in government.