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Sanders and Warren
Theodore Schleifer • October 27, 2021

Will Billionaires Really Get Taxed to Smithereens?

In a short time, a seemingly quixotic billionaire tax has become a credible threat to enter Biden’s multi-trillion social spending plan. Is this all liberal pie-in-the-sky fantasy? Or the beginning of a new cri de coeur for the wealthiest Americans, and those who manage their money?
Baratunde Thurston • October 22, 2021
After the Tide, Part 2: Breaking White Fear
Proud Boys demonstration
In a country struggling with racial progress, we cannot condemn potential allies for their mistakes, but we can’t coddle them either. Instead we must acknowledge the complexity in educating the people most invested in our oppression.
Dylan Byers • October 22, 2021
The New York Times Succession Sweepstakes Is Probably Settled
New York Times succession drama
The inside scoop on the three media stories that everyone is talking about this Friday: The New York Times’ forthcoming succession horse race, Axel’s consummation of Politico, and a little more juice about Facebook’s new identity.
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NEW & NOTEWORTHY
  1. Theodore Schleifer • September 29, 2021
    Thiel Rolls Out the Red Carpet for Blake Masters
  2. Theodore Schleifer • September 9, 2021
    Jeff Bezos Heeds His Critics
  3. Theodore Schleifer • September 9, 2021
    Will the “Angel of Death Loophole” Finally Die?
Reid Hoffman
Theodore Schleifer • October 20, 2021
The $100 Million Plan to Completely Fix Washington
In 2017, a Wisconsin dairy scion wrote a Harvard Business School case study applying “industry competitive analysis” to party politics. The result is a $100 million plan to transform election rules. Reid Hoffman and members of one of the Bay Area’s wealthiest families have already signed on.
Joe Biden meets his National Security team
Julia Ioffe • October 20, 2021
A Cold War Saga in Biden’s Washington
Members of the intelligence community are increasingly convinced that the Russian government is behind the hundreds of terrifying directed-energy attacks on diplomats and spies known as the Havana Syndrome. Will Congress respond to the “medium confidence” intelligence with countermeasures? As one member of the community told me, “We got bin Laden with medium confidence.”
Claremont McKenna College
Tina Nguyen • October 19, 2021
Welcome to University of Trump-Los Angeles
The Claremont Institute, a right-wing ivory tower in the Inland Empire, has become a finishing school for the likes of Ingraham, Shapiro, Cotton—and a sinecure for the political minds behind Trump’s attempted coup. In the process, it’s spawned an academic movement to preserve Trumpism after Trump.
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