Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden released text for the first time Wednesday morning of his proposal to tax the yearly change in value of billionaires’ assets, detailing a plan to get at the wealth of the richest Americans that currently goes untaxed until assets are sold.The tax on the value of billionaires’ stock holdings, real…Continue Reading
Amid intensifying pressure to come clean about how their products affect the mental and physical health of young users, officials from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube promised on Tuesday to work with Congress to craft new guardrails for the social media industry.In most cases, officials from the three companies declined to endorse specific legislative proposals, although…Continue Reading
In an old bank building in Brooklyn, N.Y., amateur microbiologists were tinkering with DNA when the anarchist appeared. Then came a robotics expert, coders and other industry revolutionaries. Before long, this collection of inventive, if wildly independent, experimenters would reimagine COVID-19 testing in the fight against a globe-crippling pandemic. That moment in the spring of…Continue Reading
This open letter is being published simultaneously by The New Republic and The Bulwark.We are writers, academics, and political activists who have long disagreed about many things.Some of us are Democrats and others Republicans. Some identify with the left, some with the right, and some with neither. We have disagreed in the past, and we hope…Continue Reading
Editor’s note: This story contains mentions of sexual assault. Please proceed with caution. Back in May 2021, Brad Aldrich, former video coach of the Chicago Blackhawks during the team’s Stanley Cup run in 2010, was accused of sexual assault by two unnamed players on the team. In the months since the original report, which sparked…Continue Reading
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Uber on Wednesday announced a new partnership with Hertz to make 50,000 Teslas available for drivers with the platform to rent. Drivers in the United States will be able to rent the fully electric Teslas by 2023, Uber confirmed in a statement obtained by USA TODAY. But, beginning on Nov. 1, drivers can rent the…Continue Reading
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An employee works on the tail of a Boeing Co. Dreamliner 787 plane on the production line at the company’s final assembly facility in North Charleston, South Carolina.Travis Dove | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesBoeing on Wednesday said flaws in its 787 Dreamliners would create $1 billion in abnormal costs and that it cut production to…Continue Reading