IRS says free tax-filing pilot program Direct File to be made permanent
The IRS announced its free agency-run electronic filing system Direct File will be made permanent, a move that proponents claim will help streamline the tax filing process…
WOL of sound: Following the money and activism behind anti-Israel 'days of rage'
The IRS announced its free agency-run electronic filing system Direct File will be made permanent, a move that proponents claim will help streamline the tax filing process…
Before we start, an apology. The next two paragraphs are going to sound a little sciencey: MDMA (chemistry class name: 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine) is a synthetic drug that alters…
Summer is here. It’s time for a break, especially from politics. Why waste time thinking about Hunter Biden’s convictions and President Joe Biden’s lack of them when…
In a geopolitical climate dominated by creeping great-power competition, calls for renewed diplomacy sound misguided. Efforts at peace in Gaza and Ukraine have hitherto fallen on deaf…
One of the best jokes in Whit Stillman‘s 1994 comedy Barcelona could apply to much academic writing of the past half-century. Fred, a naval officer who is…
San Francisco is opening a market where people can take food and walk out without having to pay for it. This time, it is doing it on…
Bob Kelley, who reimagined his family’s Kelley Blue Book first as a nationwide source of information and then again as a pillar of the early consumer-oriented World…
Before the advent of photography, motion pictures, and TV, it was artists and illustrators who provided a visual perspective of the world. Artistic renditions were the only…
On paper, the National Environmental Policy Act sounds like a good idea. Passed in 1970, the same year Earth Day was created, NEPA requires all federal agencies…
Next month, NATO’s most senior officials and prominent practitioners will convene in Washington, D.C. The timing is critical. The alliance has been around for 75 years, and…