Death rates up 40%, setting new 200-year high, life insurance company CEO says

Scott Davison is the CEO of OneAmerica, an Indianapolis-based life insurance company founded in the 19th century. To start the new year, Davison told the audience of an online news conference that “We …

Time magazine names Elon Musk ‘Person Of The Year,’ the internet says nope

On Monday, TIME magazine offered up a preview of its upcoming “Person of the Year” issue. Since the Meredith Corporation took control of the magazine, the cover has been graced by capital-J …

Conservative news outlets and Fox News attack veteran Sen. Duckworth for disability tax break

There are only three things that can be considered policy ideas for the Grand Old Party of racist misogynists these days: 1) people who can reproduce shouldn’t have control over reproductive rights, …

White House press secretary douses latest Republican talking point about bogus gas tax

For a very long time now, the majority of Americans have supported raising taxes on the very wealthiest people and entities in our country. For a very long time now, the Republican Party has gone …

Fixing the cheats that create income inequality

A talk with authors Morris Pearl and Erica Payne, capitalist prophets of tax fairness.

By Kelly Candaele, for Capital & Main

Benjamin Franklin quipped that the only things we can be certain about …

Republicans want a fight over raising taxes on the rich and big corporations? Bring it on

Perhaps the single most consistently held policy position in American politics over the past century is this: The Republican Party wants the rich to pay as little in taxes as possible. Currently, the …