By Erin Bass, The Conversation Some of the U.S.‘s wealthiest individuals reportedly pay just a tiny fraction of the billions of dollars added annually to their fortunes in federal income tax – sometimes they pay nothing at all. Investigative journalism outlet ProPublica says it has obtained a “vast cache” of information from the Internal Revenue […]
A new ProPublica analysis of a trove of IRS documents revealed that the richest 25 Americans pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes. But even if you use the most conventional yardstick — income — the wealthiest still pay low rates.
By Paul Kiel, Jeff Ernsthausen and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica The very richest Americans win at the tax game no matter which measure you use. ProPublica has published an article, based on a vast trove of never-before-seen IRS information, that reveals the pittance in taxes the ultrawealthy pay compared with their massive wealth accumulation. But that […]
New security and fencing in place at the Nation’s Capitol after the building was stormed by Trump-supporting rioters early this week. Guardsmen deployed. – Washington, DC – January 9th 2021 (Shutterstock) By Sir Ronald Sanders Recent events in Washington, the revered capital of the United States of America, have shaken the moral authority of that […]
Trump supporters protest in Capitol – Capitol Hill, Washington USA 1 7 2021 (Shutterstock) By T.C. Sottek, The Verge On January 6th, 2021, President Donald Trump, the former reality television star of NBC’s The Apprentice, escalated his assault on 244 years of democratic rule by inciting a mob of his supporters to break into the […]
Rollup banner promotes ‘A Promised Land’, the first volume of Barack Obama’s presidential memoirs, at Sharjah International Book Fair, at Expo Centre Sharjah. – Sharjah, UAE – November 4-14, 2020 President Barack Obama’s thoughtfulness is obvious to anyone who has observed his political career. In his book, A Promised Land he gives us a riveting, deeply personal […]
By Carolyn Crist, WebMD The U.S. could see an overwhelming surge in coronavirus cases in December and January as people meet to celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and other winter holidays, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in several interviews on Monday. “We have a baseline […]
By SPLC Center MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today announced that over 100 Confederate symbols have been removed since May 26, 2020 — the start of the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. The Whose Heritage? report’s data and map track public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. Since […]
By Linda N. Numerous hateful activities and crimes occur yearly in the United States, triggered by reasons linked to religion, language spoken, skin color, who you choose to love, and so on. These biases, exhibited in various forms, are not limited to hate speeches, white supremacy activities, racism, and vandalism, a common feature that runs […]