The massive budget plan implementing President Trump’s priorities, which he affectionately dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” passed the House by a single vote and now faces an uncertain fate in the Senate. In its current form, the bill would deliver an average tax cut of almost $80,000 next year to those in the top one percent. That’s 40 times the tax relief going to middle-income families who struggle with the costs of housing, food, and raising children. This windfall for the wealthy would be paid for through cuts to health insurance, Pell grants, and food aid for millions of…

In Warren Buffett’s last annual letter as Berkshire Hathaway’s CEO this year, he wrote, “Berkshire would not have achieved its results in any locale except America,” and there’s little doubt that he’s right. In a land of increasing polarization and too much inequality, there is still no better land of opportunity than the United States. Globalization has lifted up the rest of the world for decades, but American dominance on Forbes’ annual Global 2000 list remains unchallenged. There are 612 U.S.-based companies on the list ranking the world’s 2,000 largest public companies, far more than the closest rival in China,…