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New Year’s Tax Resolutions

…into the new year. Amartya Sen writes, in “The Idea of Justice” (Belknap Press 2009), at 32: Being smarter may help the understanding not only of one’s self-interest, but also…

Wyden’s Proposal for taxing oil and gas speculators

Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon who serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy Committee, is generally considered a liberal, though with a mixed bag of positions that…

America 2012: Thank you Justice Roberts?

by Bruce Webb Arguments were heard by the U.S. Supreme Court this week as to whether restrictions on corporate political donations were constitutional or whether those corporations are protected by…

…and until the Department of Justice finishes its Voting Rights Act review, which Justice completed on November 16th. The Justice Department found that the LRB plan illegally split up three…