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It’s Time To End the Quiet Cruelty of Property Taxes

Andrew W. Kahrl The New York Times
Property taxes, the lifeblood of local governments and school districts, are among the most powerful and stealthy engines of racism and wealth inequality our nation has ever produced.

Handing Taxpayers the Climate Cleanup Bill

Katya Schwenk The Lever
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul’s fossil fuel donors pay for their pollution.

Trumpism Is a Small Business Owner’s Revolt

Chris Dite Jacobin
The MAGA movement changed its strategy after January 6, attempting to seize control of the Republican Party from the bottom up. Finish What We Started follows the Right’s long march through America’s political institutions.