Judy Fahys is InsideClimate News’ Mountain West reporter, covering the environment, politics, and business. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, High Country News, and Outside magazine and aired on NPR.
How mortifying: one crude, ham-fisted con artist, swelled by arrogance, ignorance, and stupidity, is all it took to topple this “naked” beacon of democracy. Figure even worse with a Putin in charge.
When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.
Why the real numbers of people killed are almost certainly much higher and why this matters with the conflicting estimates of the death toll in occupied Iraq 20 years ago.