If the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) already knows so much about our taxes, why does the process to file them have to be so onerous? A group of advocates and technologists got together to make tax ...

The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke • Knopf • 2026 • 736 pages • $40 The second Trump Administration has ...

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 by Cory Haala • University of Illinois Press • 2026 • 325 pages • $29.95 Reading Cory Haala’s When Democrats Won ...

It’s not easy to be optimistic if you’re on the left side of the American political debate these days. Donald Trump is back as President, with a compliant, Republican-majority Congress ready to do his ...

The cost of everything is rising, and wages aren’t keeping up for everyone. “Affordability” has become the word of the moment, and with good reason: Zohran Mamdani rode the concept to his stunning ...

The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change. If it succeeds in ...

For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of ...

The income tax is a landmark progressive innovation of the last century, and it is under attack from multiple sides. President Donald Trump has explicitly targeted the income tax, repeating his goal ...

Pundits talk a lot—a whole lot—about “preserving democracy” in the face of President Donald Trump’s rising authoritarianism. This is not the right call. Not because I disagree that American democracy ...

In 2016, a consortium of journalists exposed how a global elite including associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the King of Saudi Arabia, drug dealers, and others hid their wealth (legally ...

Suppose that you are walking at night, and you see someone on your side of the street coming toward you, about to pass you. Is his face angry, or is he just thinking seriously about something? Your ...