Coming Soon to a Mansion Near You: A Tax on Over-the-Top Greed Grabs
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Back in 1928, the bold and brassy mobster Al Capone spent $40,000 — about $851,000 in today’s dollars — on “a stately Spanish...
5 Charts on Our Broken CEO Pay and Corporate Tax Systems
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Want to know just how bad the problems of corporate tax dodging and excessive executive pay have gotten?
In a new report, the...
Labor Holds the Line in Argentina
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Originally published in Inequality.org.
This March, Argentina’s school year began with empty classrooms. The price of learning materials rose...
Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms...
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A U.K. cryptocurrency firm transferred digital assets worth more...
VIDEO: Upholding Racial Justice in Policing and the Rule of Law in Colombia
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Nationwide protests in Colombia in 2020-2021 were met with excessive use of force by police. Young people, many of them Afro-Colombian...
The Break-Up? – Institute for Policy Studies
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Critics of Israel once occupied the fringes of the debate in the United States. Then, in 2007, J Street was founded...
Crypto firm moved $4.2m of assets to digital wallet linked to alleged Russian arms...
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A U.K. cryptocurrency firm transferred digital assets worth more...
The Threats To U.S. Democracy Go Far Beyond Elections and the Courts
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Chicago police take pro-Palestinian demonstrators into custody during the protest against Israel’s attacks on Gaza on April 15, 2024.
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NEW: In 2023, the average American’s income taxes funded $5,109 for militarism and its...
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FROM THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES PROJECT AT THE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIESFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEPress contacts belowWashington, D.C. – Ahead of Tax Day,...
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Unpacks Black Literature’s ‘Black Box’
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From the beginning, Gates shows, African Americans have turned to literary forms to validate their humanity. Credit: Vartika Sharma
In...
CPJ, 11 organizations sign Santiago +30 Declaration ahead of World Press Freedom Day
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The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 11 press freedom and journalistic organizations in adopting the Santiago +30 Declaration ahead of this...
A Bittersweet Arab American Heritage Month
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Originally published in OtherWords.
I’ve always known my Arab culture is worth celebrating.
I heard it in Syrian tenor Sabah...
Chilean court dismisses Pandora probe into deceased former President Sebastián Piñera
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A Chilean court has definitively dismissed a criminal case...
Firm related to sanctioned crypto exchange Garantex is a partner of Moscow gang leader...
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A firm with multiple connections to sanctioned...
China relied on extrajudicial means to force thousands of fugitives to repatriate, human rights...
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Over the past decade China has forcibly repatriated more...
Panama Papers trial begins with denials eight years after historic tax evasion exposé
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Eight years after the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists...
Adult webcam platform paid $2.6m into controversial influencer Tristan Tate’s bank account, leaked documents...
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Tristan Tate, a social media influencer whose brother Andrew...
Cyprus to launch new unit targeting sanctions evaders
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Cyprus plans to create a new financial sanctions implementation...
Haitian journalist, YouTuber kidnapped by gang members, released
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Local journalist Sean Roubens was kidnapped on March 14, 2024, by a gang in Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince...
The USPS Network Consolidation Plan: What’s at Stake for Southern Oregon
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Acore feature of U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s 10-year plan, “Delivering for America,” is an initiative to restructure the nation’s postal...
National Donor-Advised Funds Are Hiding Behind Donation Processors to Make Themselves Look Better
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National donor-advised fund sponsors — particularly those affiliated with for-profit wealth management firms — often claim that they “democratize giving” by...
UN rights office regrets Venezuela’s decision to suspend operations
Ravina Shamdasani, the spokesperson for OHCHR, said in a statement that the Office regretted the announcement and that it continues to engage with the...
Do High Taxes on Our Rich Make Any Sense?
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Home sweet home. For Jeff Bezos, one of our planet’s three richest human beings, the state of Washington neatly fit that description for...
The Next Generation of Students Demanding Justice for Garment Workers
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Yosef Nelson’s work on international labor solidarity began with the case of Hong Seng Knitting, a garment factory in Thailand found...
