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Reader Comments: Mainstream Press Covers DSA and Elections; The ‘Red Scare’: Then and Now; Todd Blanche and The Art of the Steal; Dr. Fauci;; New Howard Zinn Biography; Dockworkers Unions in Six Countries Announce Day of Strikes Against War, Genocide

At his hearing, Blanche gave senators clear evidence that he conspired to create a bogus, illegal deal to enrich the boss and impoverish the public. The slush fund and the tax amnesty are both very much in play.

While the IRS move applies across the country, Texas — with more than 200 megachurches — will be the epicenter for pastors and congregations to test out their new influence, one expert said.

ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.

In the largest audit in U.S. history, the IRS rejected Microsoft’s attempts to channel profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico that burned Windows software onto CDs.

US Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar just introduced the End Child Poverty Act, which would set up a universal child benefit. It’s a major improvement on previous proposals to help poor and working-class families — and would instantly slash child poverty.

Never-before-seen IRS records show that CEOs are sometimes making multimillion-dollar bets on the stocks of direct competitors and partners — and doing so with exquisite timing.

Reader Comments: Congress to the People: Jan. 06 The Grave Crimes of Donald Trump, IRS Returns Show Paid Zero Taxes; Remembering Charlene Mitchell; Readers Disagree: Ukraine War; Concern about AI; White Lotus; Countries with Most Female Inventors

The former president’s hoarding of classified documents is the least complicated of his scandals—and it’s also proving the hardest to dodge. If that were not enough, there is the Al Capone-like tax evasion.