The smartest tax doesn’t have to raise a lot of revenue to do social good. The point of a carbon tax, for example, is to ...

Presidents are treating fiscal restraints as optional. Congress can restore the officer originally created to enforce them.

The income tax is a landmark progressive innovation of the last century, and it is under attack from multiple sides.

Not because I disagree that American democracy is under assault and we need to take action, but because there’s a world of ...

For as long as the editors of this journal can remember, the broad left has been on the back foot about taxes. Barack Obama in 2012 said that “if you make less than $250,000 a year, like 98 percent of ...

The United States collects much less revenue as a share of our economy than most other wealthy nations. Meanwhile, a handful ...

Last year’s giant tax bill established something unprecedented in the history of the income tax, which sounds dryly technical ...

Taxing the accumulated wealth of America’s ultrarich should be a top tax-reform priority for the next administration. To be ...

There is a growing belief on the left that American criminal adjudication is so grossly unjust that its institutions ought to be abolished. Under this line of thinking, police, jails, prisons, and the ...

Every society must choose which goods and services—from education to roads to health care—to provide publicly and which to relegate to the realm of individual responsibility. Over the past five ...

The Free World: Art And Thought In The Cold War By Louis Menand • Farrar, Straus & Giroux • 2021 • 857 pages • $35 During George W. Bush’s presidency, the linguist George Lakoff identified freedom as ...

Federal and state regulators have recently taken significant action to curb concentrated corporate power in our economy. Some notable steps include state enforcers filing new antitrust cases against ...