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Proposition 40 Sent Me Back to the Flat-Tax Question

I still believe one rate can be fair. The harder work is deciding what counts as…

7 min read7 sources

Rep. Ilhan Omar smiling in a patterned navy and red head scarf and dark jacket in front of an American flag Politics

Omar Search: Her Age in 2000 and the Time Limit on a Case

Agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's home on Oct. 12. Reports say the question is whether she…

7 min read13 sources

Entrance of the Government Accountability Office Building in Washington, with its name carved above granite columns and security bollards Politics

Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads and past presidential PSAs, side by side

Three government-paid ads starring President Trump began airing last week. The White House says earlier presidents…

10 min read20 sources

Workers install a blue tarp on a Florida Keys roof damaged by Hurricane Irma Politics

Amendment 3 would cut your Florida property tax. Nothing in it limits your water bill or your insurance premium.

Florida's DOGE combed city budgets to build the case for Amendment 3. Nothing in the amendment…

13 min read27 sources

Rows of observers at desks with laptops and country name cards face a panel of eight ODIHR staff under a screen reading Limited Election Observation Mission, General Elections, USA, 5 November 2024 Politics

For the first time in 12 U.S. federal elections, no invitation for OSCE observers

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has observed every U.S. federal election since 2002.…

11 min read23 sources

Seven foreign ministers stand in a row in front of national flags in Vienna after announcing the Iran nuclear deal Politics

What the Iran nuclear deal capped, and why Iran’s uranium can’t be verified now

Inspectors reported Iran within the 2015 limits until 2019. The deal never covered missiles or armed…

14 min read27 sources

Map of Greenland marking Pituffik Space Base on the northwest coast as the one operating U.S. base, with Kangerlussuaq on the west coast and Narsarsuaq in the south marked as sites the Pentagon has sought access to, and Nuuk marked as the capital. Politics

Three governments announced a Greenland deal. Only one calls it control.

President Trump says the agreement hands the United States permanent control over security in Greenland, forever…

14 min read12 sources

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