tax day Abigail Disney and other Patriotic Millionaires stand outside Capitol with message: "Tax us!" (video) Carla Sinclair
tea party The dark money billionaire-funded Tea Party Patriots has an "action guide" for disrupting public health measures Jennifer Sandlin
health care system You already know the U.S. healthcare system is broke, but this graph is still shocking Mark Frauenfelder
News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
politics Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt Cory Doctorow
trump Trump wants to hand a $100,000,000,000 tax cut to the super-rich, without Congressional approval Cory Doctorow
trumpism Why "leftism" is parting ways with "liberalism" and what it means for the future of American politics Cory Doctorow
News Dirty #NunesMemo trick worked: 3 out of 4 Trump voters now believe FBI biased against Trump Xeni Jardin
class war To keep their bond-ratings, hedge-funds have to publicly demonstrate that they are the most ruthless of landlords Cory Doctorow
trumpism Even though Trump supporters are impervious to fact-checks on most subjects, they still know that the GOP tax plan is a giveaway to the super-rich Cory Doctorow
trumpism Jeff Sessions encourages courts to continue practice of fining poor people for being too poor to pay their fines Cory Doctorow
gop Protesters flood the Senate, calling for a delay in voting on the GOP tax plan until new Alabama Senator Doug Jones is seated Cory Doctorow
elections Mass incarceration and disenfranchisement of brown people was the key to GOP control in Alabama, but thanks to criminal justice reform, black people can vote against child-molester Roy Moore Cory Doctorow