BREAKING: Davos Billionaires Hate High Taxes
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here is today’s least surprising headline: According to the Washington Post, Michael Dell was asked what he thought about a 70 percent tax rate on income over $10 million. However, the audience “burst into laughter” before he could answer. Eventually the answer turned out to…
GoFundMe Campaigns. Payday Loans. McDonald’s Shifts. The Painful Reality of Surviving Trump’s Shutdown.
A furloughed government worker during a silent protest against the ongoing partial government shutdown.Andrew Harnik/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The partial government shutdown forced Jason Muzzey, an Agriculture Department contractor in Kansas City, Missouri, to stop work the day after Christmas. He hasn’t been back since. Now, without a…
Build a Fence and Crime Will … Do Nothing
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Apparently President Trump has decreed that the new Republican slogan is “Build a wall and crime will fall.” As we all know, what he really means by “wall” is a steel bollard fence, just like the one we finished building in 2010 over about 600…
The Rich Are Different From You and Me
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the Wall Street Journal: Billionaire Ken Griffin, who is becoming almost as known for his prodigious purchases as he is for his investment acumen, has closed on a New York penthouse for roughly $238 million. The deal sets a record for the highest-priced home…
Democrats Launch Investigation Into White House Security Clearance Breaches
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. A top House Democrat launched a broad investigation Wednesday into what he calls “grave breaches” in the security clearance process at the White House and on Donald Trump’s presidential transition team. In a letter to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the chairman…
The United States Is No Longer the World Leader in Resettling Refugees
Syrian refugee children walk in mud after heavy rain this month at a refugee camp in Bar Elias, Lebanon. Bilal Hussein/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For the first time in more than three decades, the United States is not the world leader in resettling refugees. That title now belongs…