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The United States of Tax Havens

Like our billionaires at home, foreign oligarchs and despots are sheltering untold sums from taxation across our country.

Because there’s good reason to believe they are.

Better half a loaf than… one-tenth of one?

The GOP should heed Churchill’s warning about appeasing authoritarians: “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, it will eat him last.”

… while the planet burns.

Solo practitioners who became veterinarians to provide friendly, community-based service now must answer to bean counters at headquarters.

America’s parting drone attack in Afghanistan, which killed an aid worker and his family, is emblematic of the entire drone war.

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?

The Build Back Better plan’s historic investment in public transit would have a tremendous positive impact.

Americans have lost the will to work… for low wages and no benefits.