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We need to remember that it is our duty to rebel against our government, Naomi Wolf says.

All too familiar with the ravages of the late-90s tech bubble, tech companies are not playing the fool this time around. Though they are by no means seeing stellar profits--in […]

The day in 1909 when Congress passed the sixteenth amendment to levy income taxes on states without any obligations to share the financial fruits with them is remembered as a […]

If you conscientiously object to ponying up your income this year, be advised that 2009 could rank as a tough one for tax evasion. Offshore accounts are increasingly scrutinized, year-end […]

Today, throughout America, modern-day revolutionaries are quiety scattering tea bags around state capitals in a mass protest more akin to weekend suburbanites mulching their front lawns than the Boston Tea […]

On a day of mind-numbing acronyms that few aside from tax preparers can decipher without IRS instructions, we should note one that could mark the way to tax system salvation. […]

One idea to raise a bit of funding for Washington without delving into the pockets of every American seems awfully appropriate in light of Wall Street's  penchant for risk. Regulatory […]

In this year marked by government largess, Big Think wants to know what you did to cut corners on your taxes this year. We know you did it. Totally anonymous, […]

Just starting this post was a task in itself. I was going against my first instinct immediately, whether to write about first instincts or not (How ironic). Everytime I went against my […]

Recent economic hardships have made the Great Depression something of a cultural hot topic. Is that making the economy worse? It’s hard to believe that in a world where the […]

It makes sense that the world is currently in the midst of a board game boom. While America’s overall toy sales dropped 3% last year, board game sales actually increased […]

Susan Boyle, an aspiring singer, rocks the house on Britains Got Talent 2009. Susan Boyle - Singer - Britains Got Talent 2009Uploaded by moovieblog

Perhaps it was a late arrival of American-style materialism that inspired dictators to cozy up with luxury and largess. So where have all the glam dictators gone? Hussein, Qadaffi, Mugabe […]

Gide, Sherwood Anderson, Ludwig Lewisohn, Faulkner, George Moore, Dostoyevsky, Huysmans, Bourget, Arsybashev, Trumbo, Galsworthy, Meredith. Plus the poems of Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Tibullus, Heine, Pushkin, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, and the […]

If there's one asset that doesn't need any further protections in this life or the next it's the estate tax, according to the LA Times. An op-ed framed the non-issue […]

Though we haven't yet seen the complete implosion of the nonprofit sector since Wall Street collapsed last year, the philanthropic sector is bracing for increasingly bigger hits. In addition to […]

"Facebook is going to try to be a monopoly, why would it not?" asks Columbia University law professor and information monopoly expert Tim Wu. "Fortunately, it's a monopoly of social […]

Forget holing up your money in those suspicious accounts in the Grand Caymans and Switzerland. Delaware, California and 32 other states offer limited-period tax amnesty programs for residents who are […]

Big Think and the Berkman Center present a live stream debate on the future of digital monopolies.

Big Think and the Berkman Center present Peter Thiel vs. Jonathan Zittrain on the Facebook monopoly.