Last November I wrote about the Montana Plan, a bid to blunt Citizens United by taking away a corporation's power to spend in elections. In May, Hawaii turned the same idea into law. Now it's Montana's turn. On November 3rd, voters there will decide on Initiative 194.
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.
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.
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