The Billionaire Tax vs. $156 Million
A one-time tax on the ultra-rich has set California's wealthiest against its own Democratic establishment, and the billionaires are winning the first round on spend. "Ro, that's insane. You want the s…
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The Anti-Fraud Task Force That Hunts Politicians
A federal task force built to hunt fraud has spent its energy prosecuting a food truck, a hate group researcher, and the men and women who dared to run against the president. "They can't shred it all …
Trump Wants PR Help for Data Centers
The man who won a presidency on a promise to "drain the swamps" of corporate influence is now, at a White House gala, advising Silicon Valley that its unpopular machines could "use a little public rel…
ICE's Passport Office
An administration that calls a foreign government a death machine quietly hands its passport to that same government's agents and books a seat for a dozen of its dissidents. "Iran has requested that I…
Four Thousand Soldiers, Zero Safety
A city was handed to the army to be made safe, and a year later it is marginally less safe, cost millions a day, and lost at least one man who could have lived. "The Pentagon's acknowledgment that the…
Eight Million Lost
One year after the "big, beautiful" bill, the country's own hospital CEOs are counting the bodies, or rather, the unpaid bills. "What that tells me is that there are patients who are completely unable…
Kushner's Poison Pill: Gaza, Disarmed on Paper Only
A peace plan with the exit clause written in first: disarm before anything, and the moment you think you're done, the door stays shut. "This is essentially Israel throwing a poison pill into an agreem…
Abbott Won’t Sign. Minnesota Sued.
A Texas governor is sitting on a jail cell full of the answer to a question Minnesota already answered. "Christian Castro is not above the law and Greg Abbott isn't either." — Minnesota Attorney Gener…
He Threatened to Bomb the Peacemaker
A two-month truce is supposed to be a runway toward peace. This one was a countdown to the next threat, and the threat was aimed at a country that has not fired on the United States in two centuries o…