Archive for June 2022
The Regulator Bankers Love to Hate
Today on TAP: Rohit Chopra’s efforts to protect consumers and defend the financial rights of African Americans bring on the wrath of the business lobbies.
Read MoreCodifying Sexual Privacy Rights
It’s time for Democrats in Congress to protect past landmark decisions from the current lunatic Supreme Court—and to force Republicans in Congress to take awkward votes.
Read MoreWill This Week’s Events Rouse the Electorate?
The right is at odds with public opinion—on abortion rights, gun violence, and democracy itself. Do voters care more about the price of gas?
Read MoreBuild Back Better Is a Pittance
Floods, fires, droughts, and the increasing uninhabitability of much of the American West demonstrate that we should be spending a great deal more.
Read MoreWinning Back Democracy
Criminal prosecution of Trump will be a good start, but just the beginning.
Read MoreWTO Fails to Promote COVID Vaccines
And the U.S., despite Biden’s commitment to a waiver of drug company patent rights, sides with Pharma.
Read MoreCourage and Convictions
If Democrats want the January 6th hearings to lead to criminal conviction of Donald Trump, it would help if they had clearer convictions of their own.
Read MoreThe Dance of the Committee and the AG
The January 6th hearings should move us closer to a prosecution of Trump.
Read MoreBad Doctor vs. Bad Patient
The race for the Pennsylvania Senate seat will be the ultimate in fake versus real populism and sheer entertainment. It will be hard for SNL to parody.
Read MoreBullets and Biden’s Bully Pulpit
Sometimes a feeble compromise is worse than nothing.
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