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Even Sky-High Income Tax Rates Won’t Stop the Relentless Rise of the Richest

Will Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” as critics contend, be a massive giveaway to the rich? Absolutely, when you tally it up. Yet the bill’s provisions, while devastating to the nation’s poorest, represent only modest gains for the majority of affluent families. Consider the merely rich—the top-earning 10 percent of households. The Congressional Budget […]


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The Bezos-Sánchez Hangover

As the dust settles in Venice, where some of the world’s richest gathered to bless the union of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, I’m wondering what to make of the multi-day affair. Plenty has already been written about the blinding tackiness of each event; in terms of ostentatiousness, it met my expectations. But even as […]


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As Trump Pushes Privatization of USPS, Amazon May Be Preparing to Take Over

A new CEO statement from Amazon suggests it could be angling to take over the US Postal Service.


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Trump’s “Pincer Attack” on Journalism Is Working. But There’s Hope.

David Folkenflik occupies a unique role at NPR: He’s a journalist who writes about journalism. And that includes the very organization where he works, which is once again being threatened by conservatives in Washington. The second Trump administration has aggressively gone after the media in its first few months. It’s kicked news organizations out of […]


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