In "The Second Estate," Boston College law professor Ray Madoff argues that America’s tax code has birthed a modern ...

It is difficult to interpret the Trump administration’s wholesale attacks on governmental programs as anything other than ...

The Gilded Age was a period toward the end of the 19th century marked by rapid economic growth and prosperity. Just a few years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the Gilded Age ...

In her book The Second Estate, Ray Madoff explains how the U.S. tax system lets the ultra-rich grow their wealth tax-free while working Americans bear the burden.

Yale Law professor Amy Chua cruised to wide attention several years ago for a supposedly satirical book about shaping her kids into child prodigies with brutal hazing. She recently wrote another book ...

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attend the 125th Army-Navy football ...

One of my best friends who I am committed to meet fortnightly for our mutual discussions and conversations on national and international matters asked me an interesting question during our last ...

Now, other reports indicate there might have been other people involved in the decision, namely Prince William and Kate ...

David Brooks has a thought-provoking column today on how meritocracy creates geography-based aristocracies (and, therefore, inequalities) that government action can scarcely ameliorate. Excerpt: Smart ...

Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the ...

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