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Great News For Rich Jerks!
How to dodge income tax while retaining your right to vote.
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Timothy Noah
What's the Matter With Pennsylvania?
Working-class support goes to Trump or Harris depending on how you define "working class," while the middle class (income $30,000-$100,000) prefers…
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We Pay A High Price for High Voter Participation
It's great that more people vote in presidential elections than at any time since 1900. But the sad truth is that people don't run to the polls in…
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Kamalomics Ain't Bidenomics, Alas
But she did good in her comment today about dockworkers.
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September 2024

The Descent of Money
How it got easier for banks to siphon a portion of transactions once carried out free of charge with little pieces of gold or silver, the end point…
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Charlie Peters Would Have Loved the Washington Post's Series on Civil Servants
Donald Trump won't read it, which is all the more reason why you should.
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In Praise of Ron Rosenbaum
By way of introducing my Rosenbaumian dissection of the Teamsters' peculiar announcement that they aren't endorsing either presidential candidate.
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On Shit
Or, how to get you to pay attention to the Trump judiciary's evisceration of the National Labor Relations Board.
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The Fed Doesn't Seem To Believe Either Presidential Candidate
Trump says inflation's raging out of control, and Harris dares not contradict him. Maybe today's rate cut can restore sanity to this discussion.
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Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Part Gazillion: Sovereign Wealth Funds
It isn't because the United States lacks valuable publicly-held assets. It's because we possess too much publicly-held debt. The good news is that we've…
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Yes, Harris Won. But Trump ALWAYS Loses Debates
Trump's debate victory over Biden was shocking in large part because this fool never won a presidential debate before.
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That Isn't Democracy Dying; It's The GOP
And if the Republican Party expires that won't trouble me much. Bonus: Who died and made Jamie Dimon king?
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