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After eighteen long and grueling weeks, the NFL is finally into the playoffs. The Cincinnati Bengals proved they could finally win a playoff game after 31 years. The Buffalo Bills proved that the Patriots without Tom Brady are just another football team. And the Tampa...

In 1996, two ambitious doctors named Raymond and Mortimer Sackler rolled out an extended-release painkiller called OxyContin. The drug was a hit, delivering a warm glow of relief for millions of Americans. And their company, Purdue Pharmaceutical, made the Sacklers billionaires. The family used part...

Sunday night, Paramount+ aired the season four finale of their hit drama Yellowstone. (No spoilers!) The show follows the Dutton family, sixth-generation heirs to the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, as they fight to defend their legacy. On one side, greedy developers want to...

2021 is almost over — a dank, foul, depressing funhouse mirror of 2020 — and for most of us, it can't end too soon. COVID is still here, taunting us with new mutations every time we finally think we've turned the corner. Americans still hate...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas, and all through the house, not a client was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that more tax shelters soon would be there;   Dependents were nestled all snug in their beds while...

The men and women who write our nation's tax laws aren't known for their sartorial style. Ohio Representative James Traficant, who served 17 years in the people's House before serving seven years in the "big" house, raised eyebrows with an occasional denim suit. (We're pretty...

Roughly 180 million miles into space, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, astronomers have found millions of asteroids — solid rocks that failed to form a planet. Most of the time, those asteroids coexist quite peacefully with earth. However, occasionally one drops out of...

Back in The Good Old Days, fame was something you earned by throwing a ball, selling a million records, lighting up a cinema screen, or landing on the moon. Then Paris Hilton decided she wanted to be famous without all that bother. So, armed with little more...

Ronald Reagan won the White House in 1980 partly by campaigning against incumbent Jimmy Carter and partly by campaigning against the 70% top income tax rate. Reagan preached a new gospel of "supply-side" economics, arguing that tax cuts would put money back in the pockets...