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How Tax-Dodging Billionaires Use Farmers as Props
After this summer, President Trump and the Republican Congress have one big item on their agenda: taxes. Specifically, cutting them for the rich. One tax they've got in their crosshairs is the estate tax — which they malign as "the death tax." But it's nothing of the...
On Electric Cars, the U.S. Is Stuck in the Slow Lane
The French government recently announced a plan to ban sales of new gas-powered cars by 2040. Not to be outdone, the UK government is now rolling out a similar plan of its own. These plans sound shockingly radical, but in fact many analysts think those transitions...
Billionaire Donors Plot a ‘Renaissance of Freedom’ — for the Privileged
Charles and David Koch — the billionaire oil men who've financed a vast network of right-wing advocacy groups — have stayed out of the national limelight recently. But they're still trying to supplant American democracy with their little laissez-fairyland plutocracy....
A Tale of Two Beaches
This summer, a heroic group of good samaritans rescued nine stranded swimmers at a Florida beach by forming a human chain. Initially, two young boys were stranded in the ocean by a rip current. As adults swam out to try to save them and couldn't return to shore...
Russian Laundromat
In OtherWords: July 19, 2017
Thanks to unified Democratic opposition and a few defections from key Republican senators, the congressional effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act is over for now. But, Geoff Coventry writes this week, the GOP has "shown their cards." In every...
There’s No ‘Free Market’ Solution to Health Care
The Republicans have big plans for health care in this country: to eliminate coverage for millions of Americans while delivering a big tax cut to the rich. As someone who stands to benefit from that tax cut, let me just say: I don't need it, and I don't want it. No...
Republicans are Right: Going to College Hurts
Going to college is a good thing, right? That’s at least what I was told as a kid, and what led me to get a college degree. I was the first one in my family to do so. Yet new public opinion polling shows most Republicans think colleges have a negative impact on the...
Engagement With North Korea Works
Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea are at an all-time high — and continue to escalate following North Korea's test of a missile that can supposedly reach Alaska. It's still possible to turn down the heat with small steps that could lead to more robust diplomacy...
The Torture-Friendly Trump Administration
It should come as no surprise to anyone that Donald Trump is pro-torture. He said on the campaign trail he'd approve waterboarding "in a heartbeat," plus "a hell of a lot worse." He added: "Only a stupid person would say it doesn’t work." There are certainly a lot of...
