Robert Kuttner

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?

How could this have happened? What now?

In late 2016, progressives, ordinary citizens, and outraged women began organizing a resistance to President Trump. It began with the epic Women's Marches of January 2017. Grassroots groups, some of them organized spontaneously through networks like Indivisible and Run for Something, set in motion a process that led to Democrats winning the House in the 2018 midterms, as well as making gains in state and local offices. Democracy was energized. And a Democratic House then served as another restraint on Trump.

Today on TAP: His China policy nominees are a relative oasis of competence, with a mix of sensible policy ideas and outlandish ones.