Plutocracy in America How Increasing Inequality Destroys the Middle Class and Exploits the Poor

The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined—more than almost any other developed nation—by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity.

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The IRS announced on Friday it is launching an effort to aggressively pursue 1,600 millionaires and 75 large business partnerships that owe hundreds of millions of dollars in past due taxes.

Rather than starve working Americans to give tax breaks to the top 1%, Biden is lifting up working class and middle class Americans while making sure that the 1% pays their share.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/11/2208215/-Dark-Brandon-went-after-cheating-1-ers-AND-WON-Boosting-Biden-Day-9

Poor editing: You have to read a long, long way down in this otherwise interesting article about Goodreads to learn that it is owned by Amazon.

That fact should have been right at the top, given Amazon's overwhelming clout in the book-sales business.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/18/goodreads-review-bombing

(Revised)

The New York Times is collaborating with local newsrooms on investigative projects. This piece, produced with Mississippi Today, is a brilliant and terrifying look into a Mississippi sheriff's department "goon squad" that operated with violent impunity for years. https://mississippitoday.org/2023/11/30/rankin-county-sheriff-goon-squad-got-away-with-years-of-brutality/?mc_cid=84eb08d38f

Note: The Times' initiative is being run by Dean Baquet, who IMO failed in key ways as the org's executive editor but is doing great stuff with this project. (Sadly, the new NYT editor is no better.)