In his latest New York Times column, Paul Krugman explores some of the reasons why Donald Trump is claiming he can't release his taxes (because of course, he can), and argues it is most likely he isn't anywhere near as rich as he claims to be:  Mr. Trump’s excuse, that he can’t ...read more

Mitt Romney may go down in history as the last sane Republican to run for president in the United States. Despite possessing the charisma of a deceased rodent, Romney believed in things like science and the role of government in an economy. The money men behind the GOP ...read more

By Theodoric Meyer: With the documents Mitt Romney released recently, we know a bit more about his taxes. We know, for instance, that Romney paid a rate of 14.1 percent on $13.7 million in income on his 2011 tax return, which he achieved by purposely overpaying. Though he was ...read more

By Cora Currier: Last week, the website Gawker published more than 900 pages of documents from Bain Capital, the private equity firm Mitt Romney founded, and headed from 1984 until 1999. The document dump didn't reveal much about Romney's personal investments, but it added a ...read more