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Tax Dodging 101: The Aircastle Model

September 4, 2019

The GOP has made it easier than ever for companies to pay $0 in taxes. A Connecticut-based airplane company shows it was already too easy.

The Green New Deal Must Be Global

August 14, 2019

For a planet-wide climate crisis, solutions must also span the planet.

Sending Money Overseas Needs to Cost Less

July 3, 2019

Remittances outpace foreign aid and investment in much of the world, but transfer companies can skim a significant percentage.

To Fund African Development, Curb the Looting of African Wealth

May 8, 2019

Where does Africa’s stolen wealth end up? Among other places, Trump Tower.

The Next Ebola Epidemic

April 19, 2019

International slow-walking — and threatened cuts to aid from the Trump administration — could exacerbate a burgeoning ebola outbreak in the Congo.

In the Wake of Cyclone Idai, the North Has a Climate Debt to Pay

April 4, 2019

Civil society groups are doing the hard work of recovery, but it's fossil fuel companies and rich countries that need to step up.