Trump quietly expands corporate tax breaks while threatening states over food aid
Treasury guidance weakens corporate minimum tax as the Agriculture Department warns states to “undo” full November SNAP payments amid shutdown confusion.
Does Brazil have an app that can upend digital finance?
Washington’s unease is rising as Brazil’s Pix bypasses U.S.-dominated payment networks. The country’s digital payment revolution may soon be impossible to contain as other countries adapt their own models.
The 6 superpowers that faith communities bring to nonviolent struggle
While religion has far too often been a tool of authoritarianism, faith institutions and communities have also been the life force of so many freedom movements.
A challenge for Democrats: Getting the stockholders to embrace a stockholder’s Tax
How a small tax on stock wealth could stabilize markets, reduce inequality, and ensure every American shares in the prosperity their labor created.
Fifteen years after Citizens United, the Montana Plan poses the latest challenge to dark...
Voters in Montana will have the opportunity this fall to ban corporate political spending and dark money in federal, state and local...
ICE recruitment campaign offers student loan forgiveness and bonuses as Trump ramps up deportation...
Critics warn Trump is weaponizing student debt to undermine dissent and push ideological loyalty through immigration enforcement
America’s new Industrial Revolution
Will Donald Trump will be remembered ruefully as our country’s very own King Canute, who used the full force of presidential power in a failed, futile effort to halt the tides of technological change?
Electricity demands of AI data centers to double by 2030: IEA report
AI’s rapid growth means companies will seek out energy sources that are most readily available, which could mean gas — an energy source that was being phased out in a growing number of developed countries.
House passes bill to shield Trump from legal accountability, restricts judges from halting unconstitutional...
Republicans push sweeping limits on judicial authority after courts repeatedly block Trump’s executive actions as unlawful or unconstitutional.
Trump-appointed judge rules White House cannot exclude AP over refusal to use ‘Gulf of...
In a First Amendment victory, federal court blocks administration from retaliating against AP for rejecting Trump’s geographic renaming order.