
Americans’ taxes used to be public — until the rich revolted
For a while in the 1920s, everybody's tax payments were public record. Then, as now, the ultrarich paid relatively low tax rates after taking legal...
For a while in the 1920s, everybody's tax payments were public record. Then, as now, the ultrarich paid relatively low tax rates after taking legal...
Until 1916, Congress didn't conduct public hearings on Supreme Court nominees. That changed when President Woodrow Wilson nominated Boston lawyer Louis D. Brandeis to be...
Orville Wright set off a national firestorm by revealing in his letter that he planned to send the Wright Flyer to the Science Museum at...
To boost the economy, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up a week to create an extra seven days of Christmas shopping. Turkey Day traditionalists...
With his talk of a second term down the road, President Donald Trump is channeling Grover Cleveland, America's 22nd and 24th president - the only...