Meanwhile, FIFA announced that it is planning to sell a major stake in the World Cup to a Kushner family firm.

“It’s really the bare minimum to call out the actors involved … the EU should be doing a lot more,” said an expert.

Trump's executive order bashed the Smithsonian Institution for attempting to advance ideas of “social justice.”

About a quarter of Americans say that the US should let him walk free, compared to nearly half who want him arrested.

Lawyers are appealing to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, which had urged the release of Leonard Peltier.

It's been a month and a half since Sen. Mitch McConnell made a public appearance.

July 27, 2026 – House Democrats are investigating the involvement of Taylor Farms in the ongoing cyclospora outbreak, citing concerns over potential political influence and attempts to mislead consume...

In the opening pages of , a new account of authoritarianism in postcolonial Uganda, author Mahmood Mamdani evokes a nineteenth-century world of exploration and violence in Africa, centering on a long-...

In a relatively unregulated market, sports betting companies are embracing predatory tactics to keep their users hooked.

At the 39th Constitutional Convention, delegates voted to divest $400,000 worth of bonds in historic first.

Beto Coral was arrested and returned to Colombia for exercising free speech in criticizing Abelardo de la Espriella.

A new report from Oil Change International shows that the Trump administration, the fossil fuel industry, and Big Tech are creating a perfect storm for rising energy prices as nearly 80 million people...

Instead of enforcing environmental laws, it’s suing states over their efforts to hold oil companies accountable.

As the U.S. runs short of interceptor missiles, Iran is carrying out strikes with a mix of attack drones and advanced ballistic missiles. The post Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defens...

The change speeds up deportation proceedings, and over 444,000 currently pending asylum applicants could be affected.

Chelsea Adolphus had been bleeding for a week. She told Danny Gyal, her best friend, that it was like a period that wouldn’t end. It was getting worse, and she felt so weak she couldn’t stand.  Adolph...

New research linking the issue to Parkinson’s disease adds to the evidence of serious health repercussions from traffic volume and other sources The roar of late-night traffic is not just annoying for...

A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about p...

Dr Hanne Bosselaers had already seen half a dozen patients by the time the young man came in. The patient worked both as a driver and a building worker to support his family. He’d broken his wrist on...

A new comic by Tom Tomorrow

“Public conscience and community resistance have paid off,” read a statement from the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition.

Barron London is an antiques and jewelry business located in Mayfair, one of the London’s wealthiest neighborhoods. At first glance its storefront seems inconspicuous — walk past in a hurry and you ar...

Remember when establishment Democrats were saying with a straight face that they had been forced to adopt the grating, alienating brand of wokeness and identity politics that made them toxic to workin...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration is moving closer to opening up US waters for deep-...

In 2020, four major museums were set to showcase the first retrospective of painter Philip Guston’s work in over 15 years. Spanning five decades, the Canadian American’s work responded to injustices i...

In many years of paying taxes, I’ve never had a problem with the IRS. So, I was surprised to receive a letter dated May 25 informing us that my husband and I owe lots more money than we had paid for o...

The post This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead. appeared first on ProPublica.

For many rural communities across the country, the crisis in healthcare manifests as a lack of specialized healthcare. American medical schools are taking note and working toward providing specialists...

The post Federal Judges Chastise Trump’s Justice Department for “Unlawful,” “Unethical” and “Unseemly” Conduct appeared first on ProPublica.

In remaking USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs, the Trump administration is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the world.

As of July 24, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have confirmed more than 4,100 cases of cyclospora with an additional 7,400 likely cases yet to be confirmed. The outbreak spans 41...

When House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries sent out a recent “dear colleague” letter, its second sentence cited “the position articulated by… pro-peace organizations like J Street.” The congressman...

When I spoke with renowned professor, activist, scholar and writer Angela Davis for the inaugural episode of Laura Flanders & Friends in 2024, decades of activism were seeing results: support for Pale...

The continued electoral success of the Democratic Socialists of America–whose candidates run for Democratic Party nominations rather than as independents–has a lot of people very angry. Most of these...

One of the key factors in understanding Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not to view the United States as a homogeneous bloc standing united behind its president. Throughout his first term (2017–2021)...

In November it will be 30 years since California voters passed Proposition 215,  legalizing cannabis for medical use. Last Sunday at the state fair some of the activists involved in that campaign were...

On Tuesday, as American aircraft struck Iran for a tenth consecutive night, Iran’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni flew to Islamabad. He was carrying a direct message from Iranian President Masoud P...

Born in 1942, a month after Pearl Harbor, I was unable to experience the Thirties directly, but I experienced it vicariously in the afterglow of an explosive era rattled by the Spanish Civil War, the...

I. Seymour Hersh reported yesterday that the White House has an operational plan for November, and that the plan does not depend on persuading anyone. The man running it, according to Hersh, is Stephe...

Elaine Forbes, the former San Francisco Port Commission’s Executive Director and (currently on-leave) Sausalito City Manager, was arraigned on Wednesday in Marin County Superior Court on four misdemea...

Two-thirds of hourly workers experienced month-to-month employer-driven schedule volatility. Many employees in food service, retail, hospitality, and other customer-facing industries have schedules th...

Months in, Trump’s war on Iran has netted him none of the goals he proclaimed when he began dropping bombs. Iran still has a dictatorship, enriched uranium, plenty of missiles and drones, and effectiv...

“They brought me here to kill me,” Gazan Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya told his last known visitor to the Israeli underground Rakefet prison, where he is kept in solitary confinement, tortured, starved and as...

Rome and the Vatican on my mind, I’m descending the stairs of my house for an early morning jaunt as a male appears to my left in the bike lane, a tune oozing from a curious device. I reach the bottom...

The post What to Do? Demand Peace! appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

He said that Congress should approve legislation to allow Venezuela’s funds to be rerouted to the US military.

Many have long chastised the Left for its supposed naivete about human nature. To these critics, the Left thinks that human beings are by nature good. Left-wingers of all stripes of course recognize t...

An Israel-based startup publicized its operations in a press release decrying the loss of local news outlets.

The alleged anti-Cop City activist was stopped and interrogated at the airport when reentering the US in January 2025.

A professor who fled Madrid says decades of neoliberal policies have diminished Spain’s ability to respond to disasters.

Upon walking through an entrance of a mock-up model of Donald Trump’s proposed United States Triumphal Arch, a visitor could plainly see it was already falling apart. The miniature triumphal arch at t...

The post The World Is Watching the United States. So Are Workers. appeared first on Inequality.org.

Favorable coverage of U.S. adversaries is constitutionally protected speech. The post House Investigation of BreakThrough News Is an Attack on All Journalism appeared first on The Intercept.

In the year since Donald Trump signed the into law, millions of Americans have already lost their health insurance as a result of that bill and other Republican policies. According to a from health...

The US is currently experiencing its argest ever recorded outbreak of , a disease caused by infection with the cyclospora parasite. The disease is typically acquired via food or drink, and can cause...

El Mahdi Lyoubi, aka Mehdi Black Wind, the Moroccan filmmaker and rapper, is currently being held in pretrial detention in Casablanca’s Oukacha prison, charged with defaming the king. His arrest has p...

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A South Carolina federal judge this week ordered the Environmental Protecti...

In April 2025, Andrea and Nathaniel Shaw were the young parents of 18-month-old twin toddlers, a boy named Tyson and a girl named Dallas, and living in a mobile home in the small town of Payette, Idah...

In front of a concrete retaining wall in Whitesburg, Kentucky, amidst piles of broken pottery and glass, Lacy Hale sifted through a plastic bag full of jewelry.  “A woman donated this,” Hale said. “It...

The post How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery appeared first on ProPublica.

A new report, published in March by the Iowa Environmental Council and the Harken Institute, attributes 80 percent of the rivers’ contamination to the agriculture industry, and links nitrate pollution...

The president makes no exceptions in its campaign to deport anyone and everyone. Even as it has promised to fight a war on behalf of the people of Iran, it has reportedly provided information about Ir...

The region has added dozens of turbines off the East Coast since last summer. They and other clean energy sources cut the need for oil power amid recent hot weather.

The Canadian government scuttled plans to display hundreds of names on Ottawa’s controversial “victims of communism” monument, after officials that individuals listed for commemoration, in the bloodl...

In the spring of 2022, a group of Chicago Starbucks workers and organizers sat together after filing their union election paperwork, radiating pride and anxiety. When the logistical talk had wound dow...

UK’s inequalities expose splits in consumer economy, with spending suffering and a decline in savings among the poorest A “Burnham bounce”, sunshine and a strong World Cup run for the England men’s fo...

The student protests in India trace their origins to a satirical social media page called the “Cockroach Janta Party” (CJP). Activist Abhijeet Dipke created the page in response to a disparaging remar...

More madness from the surreal saga of a nuclear-armed Iran oscillating between "obliterated" and "threatening our families" so we have to obliterate it though we just agreed to help nuclear-arm the br...

In a released earlier this week, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani sits behind his desk and looks directly at the camera. He starts with a stark declaration: “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal, t...

Should I lead off with how much I hate Christopher Nolan movies in general, or how much I hate Christopher Nolan’s in particular?The Odyssey I’m so aware of my hatred for Christopher Nolan movies in...

On the night of July 20, thousands of young protesters from across India slept on footpaths near the Jantar Mantar protest site in New Delhi ahead of a planned march on Parliament. The march, dubbed “...

The secretary of war’s obsession with testosterone reveals the anxieties he harbors about himself and the military he leads. The post Pete Hegseth’s Crisis of Masculinity appeared first on The Interce...

An agencywide memo reinstated ICE vehicle stops with all-new restrictive policy guidelines. The post Leaked Email Reveals New Requirements for ICE Vehicle Stops appeared first on The Intercept.

On Saturday, July 25, over 330 communities across the United States will hold vigils, protests, and demonstrations to demand justice for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, and many more...

On Thursday, Demand Progress released a new report that exposes how the financial services industry has plowed around $200 million into advocacy efforts that are centered on blocking passage of the Cr...

CND and Fairford Action have called an emergency protest outside the main gate of RAF Fairford, to take place on Saturday, 25 July. It follows the attack on Iran by a US B-1 bomber stationed at RAF Fa...

The American Federation of Government Employees is calling for the U.S. Senate to oppose President Trump's nominee for general counsel of the Federal Labor Relations Authority, Charlton Allen, due to...

The Adventures of Bloodless Quant

With a flurry of cost-of-living measures and a day in Number 10 North, the new prime minister has hit the right early notes Appropriately enough, Andy Burnham ended a week of political signalling and...

The post Ken Paxton Touts His Efforts to Fight Voter Fraud. His Senate Opponent Is Now Accusing Him of Committing It. appeared first on ProPublica.

The administration launched new duties tied to countries’ imports of goods made with forced labor, replacing a 10 percent tariff immediately after it expired.

The weekend before one April election, I got a text from a friend about the upcoming county board of supervisors race. Our district had one candidate on the ballot. A last-minute write-in campaign was...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you se...

Tune in to Yonder Radio for conversations about feral cats in Idaho, Cherokee pottery traditions, and "drunk angels" in Appalachia. This week's musician is the Gladson Family Band. The post Yonder Ra...

The post How Videos Helped Me Uncover Abuse at an Arkansas Private School appeared first on ProPublica.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to re-detain Georgetown scholar Dr. Badar Khan Suri and affirmed a lower court order that required the government...

Letter carriers and other people who work outdoors, especially in the upper Midwest and East, are experiencing hazardous levels of smoke from Canadian wildfires. Some areas have been experiencing AQI...

Today, 250 organizations and groups from across the country urge leaders of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to reject industry-led efforts to weaken the Toxic Substances Control A...

A new comic by Jack Ohman

Greenpeace International strongly condemns the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council’s decision to extend The Metals Company subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc’s (NORI) exploration contract,...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should ban direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising of prescription drugs, Public Citizen said today in a petition filed with the agency. Banning DTC ads would...

Moderate Democrats want to put a stop to Trump’s meme coin self-dealing. But that might cut off campaign donations from crypto interests. The post Trump’s Crypto Corruption Puts Centrist Democrats in...

July 22, 2026 – In a decision that has broad implications for farmers, agricultural research, and the food system, a federal judge ruled last week that federal agencies can no longer terminate grant c...

In a direct attack on the First Amendment, the House Ways and Means Committee has subpoenaed independent news outlet BreakThrough News, demanding internal records under the guise of investigating fore...

An excerpt from Running for Local Union Office: A Labor Notes Guide As your union election approaches, you’re going to have a lot of work to do. Texting and phone banking. Campaigning. Getting all the...

Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker are asking Andy Burnham to tax their wealth more. More than 100 wealthy Brits have signed an open letter to the prime minister, saying: ‘We want y...

ICE’s indiscriminate violence conveys that nonwhite immigrants, lawful or otherwise, have no place in Trump’s America.

Exclusive: Analysis of NHS England data reveals stark impact of air pollution in deprived areas Children living in the poorest areas across England are 40% more likely to be admitted to hospital for r...

As U.S. home prices reach historic highs and proposed cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) are underway, the health of low-income rural residents is becoming a cause for concern.  Meeting...

One of the buzziest books of the summer sees a social media star learn the hard way that rurality is more than an Instagram backdrop. The post In “Yesteryear,” Homesteading for ‘Likes’ Becomes a Cauti...

Israelis celebrated evicting Palestinians on a tour of the West Bank, where government-backed settler violence has spiked. The post On a West Bank Eviction Tour, Israeli Settlers Advertise “No Arabs H...

The post 5 Raw Quotes From America’s Largest Raw-Milk Dairy Owner appeared first on ProPublica.

Decades of conflict have left Myanmar vulnerable to a secretive industry that is polluting communities and endangering workers.

At Finca Seremos, in New York’s Southern Catskills, Brenda Gonzalez and Chris Nickell have placed community building at the center of their mission. Underpinned by tenets of mutual aid and agro-ecolog...

La solidaridad entre tus compañeras y compañeros de trabajo es tu fuente de poder contra el empleador. Un ingrediente esencial es el respeto. En el ámbito laboral, usualmente no vivimos el respeto, s...

¿Alguna vez has sentido que eres la única persona a la que le importa el sindicato? ¿Que ninguno de tus compañeros mueve un dedo para ayudar? ¿Que el lugar de trabajo está estancado en la «apatía»? Es...

What should union workers do when their nonunion co-workers come under attack? When our health care system in Rochester, New York, announced deep cuts to employee health benefits last November, “we st...

Organizers at Amazon can take lessons from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign—and from its failure to really build an organization of, by, and for workers.

In July 2025, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) mandated significant health care funding cuts and policy changes related to low-income health insurance programs like Medicaid and the Children’s H...

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. In the...

The post How the Government’s Obligation to Keep Foreign Workers Safe Collided With Its Efforts to Keep Farms Afloat appeared first on ProPublica.

The U.S. House Committee on Education and Workforce should reject the Heat Workforce Standards Act (H.R. 6123), scheduled to be marked up today, 65 groups said in a letter sent to the committee. The b...

A unanimous decision by three US Court Of Appeals judges in the District Of Columbia to deny an appeal based on the risks of climate change on nuclear reactor safety is a shocking disregard for the ev...

Oil majors are set to report second quarter earnings later this month that analysts expect to be the highest since 2022, when Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent crude prices soaring. Exxon Mobil is pro...

Art is how we make sense of ourselves. But the U.S. government, unlike many other countries, is investing in it less and less.

July 21, 2026 – In a series of executive orders yesterday, President Donald Trump imposed new 50 percent tariffs on a long list of Canadian goods, including dairy products, alcoholic beverages, and ot...

How incarceration and labor are bound together.

The post Mexico’s 99% Demanded Justice by Showing FIFA, Billionaires, and Corporations a Red Card appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post How to Protect Working People’s Nest Eggs from SpaceX Scam appeared first on Inequality.org.

When Meredith Dean started the first Community Works chapters, she saw people reengaging in politics. “We were seeing more and more volunteers coming in who had been totally disillusioned with politic...

An empty 1,600-bed private prison has sat idly on land that was once a soybean field in rural Appleton, Minnesota since the prison failed and, as a result, tanked the town’s economy in 2010.  Now, ICE...

The post My Maddening Quest to Find Out if Blueberries Come From Farms Where Workers Were Harmed appeared first on ProPublica.

Based in Sausalito, California, the organization now touts over 50 farms in its network and says it has worked with more than 100 school districts statewide as its partners. Its guiding conviction: Wi...

In "almost Shakespearean grotesquery," our cringe Buffoon-In-Chief just thrust himself into the World Cup final only to be unceremoniously booed, snubbed and cropped out of team photos. Then he again...

July 20, 2026 – The Trump administration finalized an immigration rule last week that food access advocates say could have a chilling effect on immigrant households seeking federal benefits. In a fina...

The post Robin Hood in Reverse: How the Pentagon Makes Us Poorer appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post Where is Massachusetts’ Millionaire Exodus? appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post Children in This Church Were Sexually Abused. Then They Began Abusing Other Kids. Some Continued as Adults. appeared first on ProPublica.

Across the country, states are grappling with how to allocate their portion of funds from the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP) created in 2025. But whether those federal dollars will help ke...

The post On This Nearly Deserted Alaska Island, You Pay to Keep Hundreds of Empty Buildings Wired for Internet appeared first on ProPublica.

Despite that explosive growth—from 50,000 workers to 400,000 in under 20 years—farms are struggling more than ever to find workers. This is the result of several overlapping trends, including increase...

In its final report the High Pay Centre says the median remuneration of a FTSE 100 CEO has risen to a record £5.06m The bosses of Britain’s largest listed companies received record pay last year, fuel...

The post How a Man Once Ordered to Pay Libel Damages Helped Launch an Investigation Into Islamic Private Schools appeared first on ProPublica.

The post Trump Officials Want to Use Human Rights Aid to Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe appeared first on ProPublica.

The post How a Paid Expert Reversed His View of a Notoriously Flawed Prosecution in the Rape of a Bestselling Author appeared first on ProPublica.

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you se...

Tune in for conversations about combating Applachian stereotypes through photography, maternal healthcare in Texas, building a community art center in an old church, and more. This week's featured art...

Abolition Judaism and rethinking the holiday of Tisha B’Av

The post Texas Democrats Ask for Investigation Into Ken Paxton After Our Reporting Found He May Have Violated Election Law appeared first on ProPublica.

July 16, 2026 – The Trump administration closed out the comment period this week on a proposal to make sweeping changes to how grants are administered across federal agencies, including those that ove...

While costs rise for everything, SNAP recipients who lost benefits—and the farmers who fed them—are being asked to shell out $1.5 trillion for the Pentagon.

The post Federal Tax Cuts for the Wealthy Are Bankrupting States. Some Are Fighting Back. appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post DHS Plans “All-Out War” on Immigration Scammers as Fraud Complaints Double appeared first on ProPublica.

The Best in Rural Writing Contest has returned for 2026. The contest, organized by the rural writing collective The Milk House, welcomes both fiction and nonfiction submissions and hopes to showcase t...

But her parents required around-the-clock care, and it took her a year into caring for them before she was able to sleep through the night, making other employment nearly impossible. She came to rely...

I’m Gabriela Pereyra, and I wear many hats. I’m director of operations at the Chester Agricultural Center. I started in agriculture back in my country, Venezuela, when I was doing my undergrad, workin...

If the labor movement is to maintain and raise standards, then we must organize Amazon—one of the largest employers and most powerful corporations in the U.S. today.

July 17, 2026 Update: Federal agencies have linked the outbreak to a single supplier of iceberg lettuce from Mexico. The lettuce was used at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio an...

“They killed my cousin,” said the Brooklyn man, a Haitian immigrant in his forties, explaining why he came to the United States four years ago. He asked to remain anonymous for obvious reasons. The si...

Incoming prime minister says he doesn’t want to ‘create new divisions’ as Mahmood is tipped to be chancellor Andy Burnham has signalled that he will not increase wealth taxes immediately after becomin...

Carla Keen on the cultural signals we attach to how people speak, in response to a review on a documentary hosted by the inequality campaigner Lucy Mangan’s description of Gary Stevenson as having an...

The post Seattle’s Fresh Bucks Program Offers a National Model for Reducing Food Insecurity appeared first on Inequality.org.

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An excerpt from 'Breaking ICE' on how Maine became the blueprint for an immigration defense movement that caught fire in the Trump era.

Now their 150-acre farm in Kewaunee County, home to 30-some cows plus additional steers, is surrounded by dairy farms that house many thousands of animals each, Utesch lamented one rainy day this spri...

In a World Cup-fueled union win, concessions workers at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles have won the right to walk off the job, should ICE pose a threat to their safety. The stadium’s 2,000 cooks, bartend...

The indictment of Raul Castro is the latest in a string of escalations aimed at building pretext for a U.S. invasion of the island nation.

The Austrian company TUV has a similar label, OK Home, with hundreds of products already in the U.S. market. Compostable bioplastics are largely made using the same processes as for traditional plasti...

The post This Deadly Heat Wave Has a Culprit appeared first on Inequality.org.

The post SNAP Cuts Take More than Food Away appeared first on Inequality.org.

The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic Shock ricocheted around the world of social research this week with the sudden ne...

A Marxist economist argues that the war in Ukraine cannot be understood without confronting the collapse of European capitalism and the loss of empire.

Workers at PECO, the electric company for the Philadelphia region and Pennsylvania’s largest electric and natural gas utility, went on strike just after midnight on Saturday, July 4, winning a tentati...

A conversation with Maximillian Alvarez, Hamilton Nolan, Kim Kelly and Alex Press on the state of organized worker’s movements, unions and reporting in the age of AI.

Can an increasingly precarious tech workforce be a site of antiwar resistance?

Applications are open once again for the Anne Feeney Hellraiser Memorial Fund, this year offering five grants of up to $1,000 for emerging artists of any discipline who create art in support of social...

Private equity firms and corporate investors have bought up hundreds of thousands of homes, driving up rents and prices while turning the American Dream into a subscription service that benefits Wall Street.

Employers steal an estimated $50 billion per year from workers through wage theft — more than all property crimes in America combined. Yet it's workers, not executives, who face consequences.

100 million Americans carry medical debt while health insurance company CEOs take home tens of millions per year. The system isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed for the people at the top.

Family farms across America are being squeezed out by corporate mega-farms, predatory contracts, and a system designed to benefit agribusiness giants at the expense of the people who actually grow our food.

A massive leak of nearly 12 million documents exposed how world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities use offshore accounts and shell companies to hide their wealth and avoid taxes.

ProPublica obtained a vast trove of IRS data on the tax returns of the wealthiest Americans, revealing that billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay a tiny fraction of their wealth in taxes compared to ordinary workers.