A nurse pays an effective federal rate near 20%. The 25 richest Americans paid just 3.4%. It isn't cheating — it's a legal playbook called buy, borrow, die, built into the tax code over a century. Here's how it works, and what it would take to fix it.
A year ago, we followed the money on 50 years of American wars. We found a clear pattern: Republican presidents keep starting the most expensive wars—by trillions of dollars. Since then, a new administration has started two more: Iran and Venezuela. So we added up the numbers again.
Tesla just approved a pay package that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. In the same country, 36 million Americans live in poverty. Seven million kids don't always know where their next meal is coming from. The real scandal isn't the numbers. It's that we've stopped blinking at th
Here's something that doesn't add up. Google, Meta, and Amazon buy more clean energy than any other companies on Earth. Over the past two years, they signed contracts for nearly half of all the wind and solar power sold anywhere in the world. Yet in that same period, Google's carbon emissions...
Solar is 41% cheaper than the cheapest fossil fuel alternative. Wind is 53% cheaper. Last year, 91% of new generating capacity built worldwide was more cost-effective than any new fossil fuel option — even before accounting for long-term fuel price risk. The clean energy race is over. Renewables won
Last November, I wrote about the Montana Plan — a ballot initiative built on a deceptively simple legal idea: states don't have to restrict corporations from spending in elections; they just have to stop granting them that power in the first place. At the time, it was a promising theory waiting to b
Viktor Orbán built a political system designed to be permanent — rewriting Hungary's constitution, packing its courts, buying its media. For sixteen years, it worked. This weekend, Hungarians voted him out anyway.
I took my kids to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans to help them understand the most consequential war in history. I didn't expect to spend the day fighting off grief.
The Trump administration summoned the Vatican's ambassador to the Pentagon in January and, according to Vatican officials, invoked a 700-year-old warning about what happens to uncooperative popes. Pope Leo XIV spent the next three months proving it hadn't worked.
The United States and Iran have been locked in hostility for nearly seventy years. American politicians treat that hostility as a given — a fact of nature, like weather. But it isn't. It has a beginning. And that beginning is a decision America made, in secret, in 1953, that changed everything.
After a Supreme Court Loss, a New Tariff Appears On February 20, the Supreme Court delivered a major ruling on U.S. trade policy, finding that the administration could not rely on emergency-powers law to impose sweeping global tariffs because Congress had never clearly granted that authority. Within hours
In January 2026, two people — Alex Pretti and Renée Good — were killed during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis. In Pretti’s case, the Hennepin County medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Investigative reporting later identified the Customs and Border Protection agents who fired the fatal shots. These deaths