A US government "opportunity zone" gives a permanent tax break to whatever business has the clout to get possession of it.

Instead of giving tax breaks to businesses that are considered less bad than others, how about taxing the worse businesses extra?

The owners of Purdue Pharma, maker of Oxycontin, are being sued and may be prosecuted for falsely presenting it as safe.

Quite a few American husbands bully their wives into voting right-wing, or not at all.

It seems that some of them ignore the bullying once inside the voting booth, but some may be too intimidated.

This is part of the reason I think that voting remotely should require a specific justification. The rest of the reason is that people's bosses could also bully them.

Tim Wu argues that democracy includes individual autonomy, and that plutocracy denies people that autonomy.

On top of the traumas that gangs cause to children in Honduras, the US border thugs now give them additional traumas.