The Washington Post is out with new reporting on the Rockbridge Network, the secret donor group lifting JD Vance, and their ...

The only way out of our financial mess is to bring the wealthy back in the game, by taxing inheritances under the income tax and eliminating the step up in basis for assets transferred as gifts or at ...

There have always been political scandals. But the fact that something can be a scandal means that the bad behavior was out of the ordinary, something to be ashamed of. Lately it feels like ...

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

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

We say taxes make citizens equal before the state. In practice, they divide them—between those whose income is tracked at the source and those whose wealth is invisible. Founded in 1969, the ...

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.

The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody repression and conscienceless crackdowns. But it was all in name of a greater ...

Two very rare Kashmir sapphire brooches, kept in a sealed family vault for almost 40 years and once owned by relatives of the seventh Earl of Wicklow, sold for almost €1.4 million at a Dublin auction.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. What should we make of British aristocrats? Once their status and fortunes inspired instinctive respect. Today ...

No matter who occupies the White House with their fingers on the nuclear trigger, the problem is not the individual human in charge, but the system which empowers them. Both the best and the worst US ...