Sixteenth Amendment

Why we pay.

Historian Robin Einhorn reflects on Americans’ complicated relationship to taxes, from the colonial period through the Civil War to the tax revolts of the 1980s.

And why we need another one.

The history of the Supreme Court is replete with outrages and abominations, but they can be tough to overcome.

The idea of liberty has often seemed to mean freedom from government and its spending. But there is an alternate history, one just as foundational and defining.

The legacy of slavery is often invoked to explain the stunted welfare state. But the strongest resistance to taxation and redistribution came from the Northern ruling class.

The class divide is already toxic, and is fast becoming unbridgeable. You’re probably part of the problem.

The news that a posh San Francisco street was sold for delinquent taxes exposes the deeper issue with America’s local revenue system.

President Trump's tax plan may be "great", but it will likely not be truly transformative.

From the Stamp Act of 1765 to the Tea Party Movement, how have – and haven't – American attitudes about taxes changed over time?