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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.

Today on TAP: 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.

The constitutional imperative is clear; the political implications are trickier.

Today on TAP: Floods, fires, droughts, and the increasing uninhabitability of much of the American West demonstrate that we should be spending a great deal more.

Today on TAP: Criminal prosecution of Trump will be a good start, but just the beginning.

Today on TAP: And the U.S., despite Biden’s commitment to a waiver of drug company patent rights, sides with Pharma.

<p>If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal. </p>

<p>If the United States was lucky to avoid a fascist takeover in the 1930s, the country made much of its own luck through the New Deal. </p>

Robert Kuttner warns Biden’s presidency may be the “heartbreaking interregnum between two bouts of deepening American fascism.”

It would be easy to write a very negative review of Robert Kuttner’s Going Big (New Press, 2022), but it would be a mistake to do. Kuttner is a well-known progressive economist and the founder of the Economic Policy Institute.