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  • We must tax the wealth of billionaires, not just income. California can lead the way | Ro Khanna
    Will California stand with the working class or the oligarchs in the vote this November?The Democratic party has a choice to make. Are we going to be New Deal Democrats or corporate Democrats? Are we standing with the working class or the tech oligarchs?Proposition 40, California’s billionaire tax, is the most important ballot initiative in America and a fight for the soul of our party.Rohit Khanna is aUS congressman and attorney serving as the US representative from California’s 17th congressio
     

We must tax the wealth of billionaires, not just income. California can lead the way | Ro Khanna

19 octobre 2026 à 06:00

Will California stand with the working class or the oligarchs in the vote this November?

The Democratic party has a choice to make. Are we going to be New Deal Democrats or corporate Democrats? Are we standing with the working class or the tech oligarchs?

Proposition 40, California’s billionaire tax, is the most important ballot initiative in America and a fight for the soul of our party.

Rohit Khanna is aUS congressman and attorney serving as the US representative from California’s 17th congressional district

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© Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

© Photograph: Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

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  • How we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire
    Tom Cruise’s latest film could lose $250m (£190m) – could one reason be that audiences are tired of Hollywood telling them what they already know about the super-rich?It seems as if nobody can decide who should shoulder most of the blame for the recent box office flop of Digger.Was it the ousted Warner Bros film executives Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, whose love of big-budget auteur cinema usually came with a hefty price tag? Or was it the marketing team, who were responsible for hiding the movie’
     

How we lost our appetite for eat-the-rich satire

14 octobre 2026 à 09:34

Tom Cruise’s latest film could lose $250m (£190m) – could one reason be that audiences are tired of Hollywood telling them what they already know about the super-rich?

It seems as if nobody can decide who should shoulder most of the blame for the recent box office flop of Digger.

Was it the ousted Warner Bros film executives Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy, whose love of big-budget auteur cinema usually came with a hefty price tag? Or was it the marketing team, who were responsible for hiding the movie’s biggest swing from all trailers, ensuring many viewers would be left alienated from its early meta-reveal onwards?

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© Photograph: Keizo Mori/UPI/Shutterstock

© Photograph: Keizo Mori/UPI/Shutterstock

These California Boat Dwellers Fear the Worst: Life on Land

13 octobre 2026 à 05:00
For decades, dozens of people lived rent-free on a bay just north of San Francisco. A few holdouts remained as a deadline loomed to leave the water.

© Ian C. Bates for The New York Times

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