Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is presenting the Union Budget 2026–27 today, with income tax proposals in sharp focus. Taxpayers await possible relief through revised slabs, higher deductions, ...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has picked Phylisa Wisdom, the executive director of the progressive New York Jewish ...

Hardly anyone disagreed that Nigeria needed a new tax regime. The erstwhile tax rules were complex and cumbersome, their ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a nearly 9% increase in total state spending for the upcoming fiscal year – that’s a $350 ...

In a recent speech before the New York Stock Exchange on revitalizing the securities markets, SEC Chairman Paul Atkins remarked that over the ...

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(Damon Winter | The New York Times) The Statue of Liberty in New York, Oct. 29, 2019. New York Times opinion columnist David Brooks says a remarkable feature of America is that many of the scorned ...

The story of the University of Austin, in Texas, gives us a glimpse of both the problem and the solution. New institutions can be an answer to the failures of the old, but they’re still subject to the ...