Robert Kuttner

Today on TAP: Despite a lot of BS from U.S. Steel execs campaign about lost US jobs, Kamala Harris will act to block the Nippon takeover of USS—which will actually preserve jobs.

In September, as ocean shippers refused reasonable wage increases for East Coast dockworkers despite exorbitant profits and a strike became likely a month before the election, the White House went into high gear—and settled the strike entirely on worker terms.

In Wisconsin, where many nursing homes are county-owned and locally prized, an emblematic privatization battle illustrates the latent progressivism of rural people.

Today on TAP: It’s good that Kamala Harris is doing more one-on-one interviews, because she’s getting a lot better at it. Still, she occasionally misses an opportunity.

Today on TAP: The severe damage from back-to-back hurricanes will affect the election—but how?

Today on TAP: Yes, if they are framed right. Biden and Harris are winning the battle for fair pricing. That should be a big deal in the campaign.

Progressive state and city officials are pushing back against the right’s war on ‘woke capitalism.’ They could be doing even more with trillions of dollars in pension funds.

Today on TAP: Can she restore anything like the excitement of the campaign’s early days when Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic candidate? Can she win without it?

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on Monday to The award cited their research into how institutions shape which countries prosper.

Today on TAP: His Madison Square Garden Nuremberg Rally marks an even more explicit embrace of fascism. How much difference will that make in the campaign’s final week?