The harris plan

Want a better military? Gotta raise taxes Henry ...

Issue of the week: currency gyrations The “debasement ...

Ray Madoff The Second EstateHow the tax code made an Americanaristocracy192pp. Chicago University Press. £19 (US$25). Vanessa S. Williamson The Price of Democracy The revolutionary power of taxation i

Donald Trump says he is instructing representatives to buy $200bn in mortgage bonds in an effort to push down interest rates, reports Business Insider. Trump is playing his part masterfully: helping t

→ Walk through parliament and barely a wall is clear of portraits and paintings harking back to hundreds of years of tradition. Sitting in Ed Davey’s office is a somewhat different experience. On the

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci’s words, written in prison near Bari almost 100 years ago, ring out to us now. The politi