San Francisco Just Passed the Largest Tax Increase in City History. It’s Anybody’s Guess if It’s Legal.

LIBERTY November 12, 2018November 12, 2018

San Francisco voters just passed a huge tax increase on business to pay for homelessness services, but it’s anyone’s...

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Culture July 25, 2018

Trade wars have an interesting way of revealing cultural stereotypes. Countries often propose tariffs not on the most valuable...

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Culture June 13, 2018

Across pop culture, history is being unraveled and remade. There’s the post-World-War-II dystopia that emerges from a triumphant Nazi...

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Culture May 20, 2018

The way Bill Bowerman told the story, one of Nike’s greatest innovations came to him at breakfast. The University...

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Culture May 15, 2018May 15, 2018

It’s not every TV season that a show comes along that fits so snugly into Smithsonian.com’s wheelhouse. That’s why...

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Culture April 4, 2018April 4, 2018

Sometimes what’s absent from a museum says more about history than what’s included. Two contemporary artists—Titus Kaphar, who is...

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Culture February 23, 2018February 23, 2018

For more than 40 years, Greg MacGillivray has taken his oversize IMAX cameras to the top of Everest, into...

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SCIENCE & TECH February 7, 2018February 7, 2018

Maria Guagnin By Jake Buehler Art carved into rock by prehistoric people can tell us a lot about the places...

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Culture January 16, 2018January 16, 2018

On Monday, Bloomberg declared Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos the wealthiest man in history. With a worth of $ 108...

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Culture December 21, 2017December 21, 2017

The scale of the overdose epidemic is hard to fathom. In 2016, overdoses claimed 64,000 lives—more than the US...

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