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Okay, I feel like Rachael Ray in this post, but I love my microplane! A cute, small little grater!

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Why Your Tax Rate Is Higher Than a Billionaire's

A nurse pays an effective federal rate near 20%. The 25 richest Americans paid just 3.4%. It isn't cheating — it's a legal playbook called buy, borrow, die, built into the tax code over a century. Here's how it works, and what it would take to fix it.

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U.S. War Costs by Party: The 2026 Update

A year ago, we followed the money on 50 years of American wars. We found a clear pattern: Republican presidents keep starting the most expensive wars—by trillions of dollars. Since then, a new administration has started two more: Iran and Venezuela. So we added up the numbers again.

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The Last Time America Made Robber Barons

Tesla just approved a pay package that could make Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire. In the same country, 36 million Americans live in poverty. Seven million kids don't always know where their next meal is coming from. The real scandal isn't the numbers. It's that we've stopped blinking at th

14 Jun 2026

The Grid Trap: How Big Tech Ended Up in Big Oil's Corner — And the Unlikely Way Out

Here's something that doesn't add up. Google, Meta, and Amazon buy more clean energy than any other companies on Earth. Over the past two years, they signed contracts for nearly half of all the wind and solar power sold anywhere in the world. Yet in that same period, Google's carbon emissions...

13 Jun 2026

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