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The Tom Paine Tax Plan
The great pamphleteer of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine, had much more on his mind than independence from the British.
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Tornadoes Can Kill. So Can Amazon’s Business Model.
Old-school home-improvement contractors have a piece of folk wisdom they love to share with prospective clients. “Listen,” they like to say. “I can do this job fast, I can do it cheap, or I can do it well. But I can’t do all three.”
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Treating Workers Like They’re Disposable Is Bad Business
McDonald’s workers in 15 U.S. cities recently staged a weeklong strike demanding a $15 hourly wage for every McDonald’s worker. McDonald’s resisted, pledging only to raise average wages to $13 an hour.
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Essential Workers Take the Risk, CEOs Take the Reward
Every week, millions of us walk into a Walgreens drugstore without giving it a second thought.
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President Trump, Killing Someone Is Not Like Missing a Golf Putt
Trying to keep up with the stunningly inappropriate — and worse — remarks of Donald Trump can sometimes seem like a full-time job. But some of his most outrageous comments came in a recent Fox News interview about police violence.
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Coronavirus and the ‘Shock Doctrine’
We all have to come together. We need to help each other. We don’t have time for politics as usual.
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Trump’s EPA Is a Huge Cancer Risk
This January, President Trump claimed credit for new figures from the American Cancer Society showing “the sharpest one-year drop in cancer death rate ever recorded” between 2016 and 2017.
