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A Review: Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American Century, by David Allen, Harvard University Press

Today is Tax Day, the deadline for Americans to pay their taxes. One group that won’t be paying much today: the rich, who have stashed $2 trillion in offshore tax havens.

These efforts will backfire on the right—but produce a lot of suffering along the way.

A settlement doesn’t make all the other revelations go away, no matter how much money it is.

The Second Amendment was intended in the first instance to protect slaveholders from the people they owned.

After the pandemic decimated the child care industry, parents are now routinely waiting years for care and doing anything they can to get off a waitlist.

“Don’t assume that a blanket message on critical race theory or transgender issues is going to claim every district,” one GOP activist said.

The microbiome’s signals regulate the growth and function of energy-producing mitochondria across many cell types. The ultraprocessed foods that make up an increasing fraction of American diets can disrupt these signals.

The Rutgers strike can’t be seen in isolation but as part of a massive national movement looking to counter the corporate takeover of higher education that’s helped to accelerate wealth inequality to historic levels.