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What a Better Tax Bill Would Look Like

Chuck Marr, Samantha Jacoby, Kris Cox, Stephanie Hingtgen Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
This year offers an opportunity to enact tax policy changes that would ease the strain on household budgets that people in low-paid jobs and their families face while ensuring that the nation’s wealthiest pay their fair share.

Trump Harvests Autocratic Powers Planted by Bush and Cheney

Rebecca Gordon TomDispatch
Sending people to another country didn't start with Donald Trump, but with George W. Bush in the War on Terror, called "extraordinary rendition." “Extraordinary” when it occurs outside of normal legal strictures, as with Abrego García today.

Global Battlefields: A No-Holds-Barred Reckoning

Max Elbaum Convergence
Walden Bello’s memoir wrestles with tough questions of political strategy and radical ethics in a world full of uprisings, wars, obscene inequality, and aggressive counter-revolutionary movements.

Have We Found Life on Planet K1-18b?

Chris Impey The Conversation
Astronomer Carl Sagan asserted that ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’ What precisely does that mean? And does the evidence of life on a distant planet recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope meet that challenge?

Whither American Catholics?

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect
The Church in the U.S., as in much of Europe, is shrinking. In exiting the Church, liberals and radicals and the just plain disgusted have left in their wake a right-wing laity and priesthood arrayed against liberalism’s embrace of the marginalized.