Employment in Canada fell by 68,300 last month, more than erasing previous job gains this year as the trade war with the US drags on.

Members of Portland City Council introduced a new tax proposal on Thursday that they say is meant to help local businesses.

With a history as a flashpoint between Seattle’s view of itself as a modern, urbanist city and the realities of its neighborhood, single family-friendly zoning, the latest land use kerfuffle …

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Chicago Booth’s Eric Zwick discusses how the wealthy bend policy to their advantage.

Join the Center for American Progress for a conversation on business ownership as the main path to wealth in America, and what that means for the future of tax policy and the American Dream.

Over the course of his life Jürgen Habermas sought to honor the principle that in a modern democracy the only legitimate force should be the unforced force of the better argument.

A saucy debate Thursday showcased the divisions between supporters and opponents of a ballot measure to repeal Washington's new income tax.

“If I were still controller, I’d have the Franchise Tax Board in a war room right now trying to figure this out,” a former state controller told POLITICO.

The man behind the California effort to impose a first-in-the-nation tax on billionaires knows it’s a Hail Mary. But even if it fails, he’s not stopping.

Polls show overwhelming rank-and-file support, but Gavin Newsom’s opposition has trickled down to nearly every elected official.

Most Democratic voters say that they favor a wealth tax, but a California ballot initiative has plenty of liberal opponents.

Polls show overwhelming rank-and-file support, but Gavin Newsom’s opposition has trickled down to nearly every elected official.

It won’t be as simple as voting ‘Yes’ on Prop. 40, billionaire tax proponents fret. Ballots are now being mailed out.

Billionaires are funding several stealth ballot measures in California, including Propositions 41 and 42, to undermine Proposition 40 and prevent the implementation of a new wealth tax during the…

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

Either pass wealth taxes or learn to love digital feudalism.

The historian Frances Stonor Saunders died recently at age 60. Her book Who Paid the Piper? pulled back the curtain on postwar CIA funding of Western cultural institutions — despite repeated attempts ...

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The Free Cities Foundation promotes free-market projects backed by Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, and Marc Andreessen.

For over a week, high school students and teachers in France have been protesting the state’s abandonment of the education system. The government response: send in police to subdue them.

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A crew member who quit the pro-ICE film 'Pawn Shop' didn’t know its MAGA politics when hired, raising questions about what productions disclose.